Msc Thesis

The thesis will explore how artificial intelligence (Large Language Models, Genetic Programming, …) can be leveraged to enhance security testing. The internship is done at the Serval Team at the Security and Trust (SnT) research center of the University of Luxembourg.

While the workstation (with screen, keyboard and mouse as peripherals) has long been the most common installation for computer-intensive employees, the arrival of powerful, versatile tablets and telephones in recent years has overturned this work organization in many professions. Software development, on the other hand, remains very attached to this type of installation. The aim of this thesis is therefore to explore the extent to which recent advances in software engineering (dockerization, static code analysis, etc.) could enable the development of a nomadic code review environment as efficient as the traditional model.

While workstations (including monitors, keyboard and mouse as peripherals) have long been the most common installation for computer-intensive employees, the arrival of powerful, versatile tablets and telephones has been shaking up this organization of work in many professions for some years now. Software development, on the other hand, remains very attached to this type of installation. The aim of this thesis is therefore to explore the extent to which recent advances in software engineering (dockerization, static code analysis, etc.) could enable the development of a nomadic code review environment as efficient as the traditional model.

This thesis seeks to explore different aspects of socio-technical debt in the development cycle.

The use of music to create favorable conditions for development and programming has become common practice (cf. the use of the lo-fi genre and the emergence of the “code-fi” musical genre). Similarly, the use of the sound dimension of a user experience is commonplace in many fields (video games, various control terminals, etc.). The aim of this thesis is to investigate how the sound dimension could be integrated into modern development tools to encourage concentration, attention and/or motivation, depending on the characteristics of the code being worked through (more complex code regions, repetitive tasks, etc.), the context outside the developer (time of day, weather, etc.) and personal preferences.

The goal of the thesis is to explore how LLMs and Retrieve Augment Generate (RAG) approaches can be leveraged to enhance automated test case generation in IntelliJ. The internship is done at JetBrains Amsterdam.

In this thesis, the student will be asked to design a web framework that will enable a developer to design an application that can be deployed as a website, desktop application, mobile application and immersive augmented and virtual reality application. One of the aspects that will be particularly studied is the framework’s ability to offer simple, explicit and intuitive commands for managing interface elements within 2D and 3D environments.

There exist very few automated testing frameworks for virtual and augmented reality-based applications. The goal of this master thesis is to define (and implement) such a framework for specific augmented reality technology (to be defined). The internship is done at the University of Rennes, France.

The goal of this thesis is to design and implement an augmented reality performance testing framework.

These days, IT is increasingly resource-intensive, both in terms of hardware and energy consumption. As a result, the sustainable side of software is an increasingly studied topic in the software engineering community. However, developers have little knowledge of how to write and develop software in a more sustainable way. The aim of this thesis is to find out how to help developers write green code. The more precise subject is to be defined with the developers. The internship is done in the Software Engineering Research Group (SERG) at TU Delft in the Netherlands.