Theses

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Illustrative topics

The following list is TERRIBLY outdated. That is, some of these topics led to theses several years ago. (Some of the descriptions may require a uniko login.) You really want to check out our OLAT pseudo-course for thesis topics.

A declarative build system for a language repositor

A Web API for Linked Software Data

Topic analysis for conferences

DSL for SSS in document management

Co-evolution for a development stack

Software analysis in IT controlling

The notion of projectional editing

A messaging-based IDE

A potpourri of software analyses

A potpourri of software transformations

Types checking web apps

Co-evolving web apps

Analysis of chrestomathies in linguistics

IT enterprise profiling

Migration to the cloud

Licensing in academic OS development

Domain-specific languages in space

Package platform integration

A systematic SL(E) survey

Software ontology mining

Software ontology re-engineering

Literate deployment scripting

Language-parametric fact extraction and fragment location

Metrics-based comparison across languages

Build automation for large heterogeneous software repositories

Model-based wiki page validation

An AOP-centric 101theme

Managing similarity and variability in a software chrestomathy

Best SE practices for heterogenous Java projects

Technology study on semantic wikis

Wikipedia’s ontology of software languages

Integrate 101companies and StackOverflow

Vocabulary mining for a software product

Metrics-based comparison of a software chrestomathy

Technology adoption for a versioned corpus

Semi-automatic feature tagging

An iOS-based 101theme

Binding of megamodels for software technologies

Business models for “CS academics teach IT professionals”

Screaming fast model transformations with deforestation

The state of the art in DSL implementation in the wild

Analysis of the privacy vocabulary of gmail, FB, et al

Binding generator for Eclipse’s object model for Java

Megamodels for popular programming technologies

Language extensions for programmable object-model mappings

Analysing the scope of API usage scenarios in source code

The role of annotations & XML in framework usage

Managing variability in a repository with programming samples

Re-hosting 101companies from Sourceforge (svn) to git

Risk analysis for industrial use of open-source APIs

A transformation language for Wiki evolution

Characterization of BigData and noSQL technologies

Technologies for API usage analysis and transformation (Joachim Pehl)

Haskell programming technologies (Thomas Schmorleiz)

Reproducible wrapper for API migration (Malte Knauf)

Clone detection for course work (Michael Lellmann)

Deltas for MapReduce computations (David Saile)

Systematic comparison of web-programming technologies (Tobias Zimmer)

Bulk load in data warehousing (Mehmet-Sefa Usta)

An aspect-oriented programming approach for PHP (Markus Schulte)

Corpus engineering for fact extraction from Java projects (David Klauer)

Analysis of frameworkiness for open-source Java projects (Jan Baltzer)

Algebraic properties of MapReduce computations (Andreas Brandt)

API usage analysis for SourceForge projects (Jürgen Starek)

API usage analysis for the .NET platform (Rufus Linke)