In-IDE code generation models - a literature review

Code generation is becoming one of the most important tools in an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for programmers, be they novices or experts. It allows them to produce code faster, avoid typos and other mistakes, be more efficient and easily turn ideas into code. As such, there are many in-IDE code generation models to choose from,...

A User Evaluation of UniXcoder Using Statement Completion in a Real-World Setting

State-of-the-art machine learning-based models provide automatic intelligent code completion based on large pre-trained language models. The theoretical accuracy of these models reaches 70%. However, the research on the practicality of these models is limited. Our paper will discuss the usefulness of UniXcoder, a machine learning-based cross...

User Evaluation of InCoder Based on Statement Completion

A lot of models have been proposed to automatically complete code with promising evaluation results when tested in isolation on testing sets. This research aims to evaluate the performance of these models when used by developers when programming. Are these models still useful for actual programming and do developers even want this functionality?...

Evolution of the WebDSL runtime: Reliability engineering of the WebDSL web programming language

Web applications are ideal for implementing information systems; they can organize and persist the data in a database, do not require installation on client machines, and can be instantly updated everywhere. However, web programming is complex due to its heterogeneous nature, causing web frameworks to suffer from insufficient or leaky...

Monitoring-aware IDEs

Engineering modern large-scale software requires software developers to not solely focus on writing code, but also to continuously examine monitoring data to reason about the dynamic behavior of their systems. These additional monitoring responsibilities for developers have only emerged recently, in the light of DevOps culture. Interestingly,...

Usage of Static Analysis Tools in the Integrated Development Environment

Developers make use of automation to perform repetitive and potentially error- prone tasks. One such automation can be categorised as, which aims to analyse program properties. The particular focus of this investigation are so-called ASATs (Automatic Static Analysis Tools). These ASATs are readily available for many programming languages and can...

Polaris: Providing context aware navigation in spreadsheets

Spreadsheets are a successful example of an end-user programming language, and the spreadsheet paradigm shares several characteristics like composition, selection, and repetition with programming languages. There are compelling reasons that spreadsheets are code. For most programming languages, developers are supported by powerful IDEs. However,...

Building Blocks for Language Workbenches

This dissertation presents research on techniques, methods, and tool support for domain-specific language engineering. Domain-specific language engineering is the discipline of designing, developing, and maintaining domain-specific programming languages. The focus of this thesis is the architecture of language workbenches their underlying...

Domain-Specific Languages for Composable Editor Plugins

Modern IDEs increase developer productivity by incorporating many different kinds of editor services. These can be purely syntactic, such as syntax highlighting, code folding, and an outline for navigation; or they can be based on the language semantics, such as in-line type error reporting and resolving identifier declarations. Building all...

Ontwerp en implementatie van een Integrated Development Enviroment voor de Delft Workbench op basis van Eclipse

De Integrated Development Enviroment voor de Delft Workbench is een programma dat de functionaliteit van de Delft Workbench aanbied in de vorm van een handig te gebruiken programma. Aan dit programma werden een aantal eisen gesteld zo moet het eenvoudig te gebruiken te zijn. Daarbij komt dat het een overzichtelijk programma moet zijn waarin een...