Copy-Paste Detection in Spreadsheets

When a company is in need of a reporting tool, the most commonly made decision is to choose for Excel. In fact, over 90% of the world’s companies base their decisions on a report made using Excel. This shows that the number of spreadsheet designers, of end-user programmers, is large. It has been estimated to be 5 times as large as the number of...

Datagraphics creation for the modern web

This document contains the findings of a feasibility study of an application enabling infographic designers to convert vector drawings into interactive, data-driven web applications, a.k.a. datagraphics.

Design of a coaching support system for evaluating sport tactics

Coaches are using video analysis to evaluate the performance of a team in field hockey. Events with the ball are tagged and saved in a match annotation file, which is used to lookup video fragments. The match annotation enables a coach to lookup and to evaluate single moments of the match but doesn't provide a coach insight in the tactic. Tactic...

The Impact of Antipatterns on the Change-Proneness of Java Systems

We replicated a part of the recent study on the impact of design defects on the change-proneness of software applications and extended it by performing an analysis based on ?ne-grained source code changes (SCCs) performed on Java classes during the evolution of the systems. Using SCCs extracted from the version control systems of 16 Java open-...

ArchWiki: Using Web 2.0 for Architecture Knowledge Management

Software architecture plays an important part in program comprehension, which is one of the most time consuming tasks in software development. If software developers don’t properly share their architectural knowledge with team members, the team will act based on an incomplete or even possibly incorrect view on the code base, and this can lead to...

Investigating the usefulness of stack traces in bug triaging

In software engineering, resources such as time, money and developers, are limited. Often when bugs are found in the software developed, bug triaging is used to prioritise bug reports and allocate resources to it. When the number of bugs is considerable, this will require a vast amount of time and effort. The goal of this research is to...

Visualize local neighborhood for supporting debugging

Developing software is complex, debugging even more. In this thesis an approach is presented to reduce the debugger’s burden by introducing visual support for debugging. This is accomplished by using multiple supporting debugging concepts which are implemented in the tool: the Visual Debugger. The Visual Debugger supports debugging by...

Managing Software Design Erosion with Design Conformance Checking

Software design erosion is a well known process; however, once it becomes noticeable it may already have progressed so far that repairing it is difficult and costly. Design conformance assessment techniques can help developers to detect – and mitigate – the effects of design erosion, before they cause problems to the long-term maintainability of...

Investigation of the impact of cohesion on the change-proneness of Java interfaces

A lack of cohesion is often associated with bad software quality, and could lead to more changes and bugs in software. In this thesis the impact of cohesion on the change-proneness of Java interfaces is investigated. Showing the existence of a relation between these concepts can lead to better change prediction models that can support software...

Goal-driven behavior in S-CLAIM

Describes the multi-agent system in development in LIP6, Paris together with research done towards goal-driven behavior and it's implementation in the project.

Native cross-platform mobile application development using voind

The fragmentation of mobile devices nowadays makes it hard for (third party) mobile application developers to develop applications that are suitable for all mobile platforms on the market. A current startup, named Obymobi (Order By Mobile), introduces a new platform for ordering drinks and/or food in the hospitality business using a mobile...

Re-engineering Web Applications from MSO to SSO

Nowadays a lot of small companies maintain multiple websites that require the user to sign up for ordering products or extended interaction. The users have to create an account for each website the company owns, creating duplicate information for the company and forcing the customer to remember multiple accounts. Where big companies can solve...

Anti-Pattern Scanner: An Approach to Detect Anti-Patterns and Design Violations

In this Master's Thesis Project, two Code Smells, four Anti-Patterns and four types of Design Principle violations have been examined. We developed a detection program called the Anti-Pattern Scanner. This scanner has been used in an empirical evaluation where five open-source Java projects have been examined and scanned for these `pattern'...