Using clickstream data and representation learning to understand user interests in order to recommend vacations: Master Thesis at Vakanties.nl

Because of the transfer from brick-and-mortar stores to the web, tourism companies have had an increasing need for good recommendation systems to help the users of their websites find what they want. When developing a recommendation system for tourism, we run into a couple of problems that we would not run into when developing it for e-commerce....

Intent-Based Networking with Programmable Data Planes

Switches that can be (re)programmed through the network programming language P4 are able to completely change – even while in the field – the way they process packets. While powerful, P4 code is inherently static, as it is written and installed to accommodate a particular network requirement. Writing new P4 code each time new requirements arise...

Detecting Breaking Changes in JavaScript APIs

The goal of this thesis is to explore the current possibilities for detecting breaking changes in JavaScript. For this, we propose an approach and show its accuracy by constructing a tool and evaluating it. The evaluation is carried out on 3 chosen JavaScript projects and a total of 3000 consumer packages. For each of the projects, we compute...

Adapting TCP/IP protocol to a Time-Slotted NFC Channel present in a Wireless Power Environment

Kitchen is becoming a hotbed for innovation in the Internet of Things (IoT) revolution. Many kitchen appliances are being connected to the Internet to facilitate `smart-cooking'. The appliances are becoming cordless too, i.e., they are being powered by the inductive power sources which are integrated into the kitchen counter-tops. The Wireless...

An Exploratory Study on Faults in Web API Integration

Nowadays, service-oriented architectures are more popular than ever, and more and more companies and organizations depend on services offered through Web APIs. The capabilities and complexity of Web APIs differ from service to service, and therefore the impact of API errors varies. API problem cases related to Adyen’s payment service were found...

Continuous Mutation Testing in Modern Software Development

Modern software is being built in a continuously integrated fashion, in order to overcome the challenges that come with developing large software systems from many contributors. The cornerstone of continuous integration is the testing step, since it is supposed to protect the system from changes that might disrupt correct behavior. Mutation...

Why and How JavaScript Developers Use Linters

A linter is a type of static analysis tool that warns software developers about pos- sible errors in code or violations to coding standards. By using such a tool, errors can be surfaced early in the development process when they are cheaper to fix, and code can be kept more readable and maintainable. For such a tool to be successful, it is...