5/18/2017

 

 • Introduced to our topic, met with Dr. Lu and began reading on code smells

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5/19/2017

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  • Continued reading on code smells​

  • Began reading on Data Flow Analysis and Type Analysis for JavaScript

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5/22/2017

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  • First Weekly Presentation

  • Talked with Nabil about Data Flow Analysis

  • Continued reading on TAJS and began looking how to implement code smell detection using TAJS

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5/23/2017

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  • Continued looking at ways to implement code smells in TAJS

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5/24/2017

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 • Implemented the following code smell detectors:

        Short Variable Name, Variable Reassign, Long Method, Long   Parameter List

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5/25/2017

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 • Continued reading on TAJS and Data Flow Analysis

 • Implemented detector for empty catch statements and variable assignment within conditional statements

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5/26/2017

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• Met with Dr Lu. to discuss our progress

• read on TAJS

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5/30/2017

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• Second weekly presentation

• Found 22 code smells for our presentation to professor Lu.

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5/31/2017

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• Met with Dr. Lu and Nabil to present 22 code smells

• implement a detector for too many global variables and variables without using var.

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6/1/2017

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• Met with Nabil for tips on how to implementation our code smell detectors.

• implemented a detector for argument and parameter mismatch

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6/2/2017

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6/5/2017

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• Cameron's birthday!!

• Presentation on week 3

• Began looking at benchmarks and Javascript source codes to test

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6/6/2017

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• Revised already completed code smell detection algorithms to increase accuracy

• Began looking into how to develop depth detection algorithm

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6/7/2017

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• Continued to revise completed algorithms

• Designed algorithms to detect long method chains, and excessive nesting

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6/12/2017

• Corrected The parameter argument mismatch code smell and the excessive nested for loop code smell

• Met with Nabil to discuss our progress with implementation

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6/13/2017

• Began writing our research findings by describing each code smell we have implemented and how we implemented them.

• We modified the error messages to print out more organized to the user.

• We searched for new code smells and new benchmarks for testing.

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6/14/2017

• Found JavaScript games to test out our code smells

• Looked for better algorithms for the For-depth and parameter argument mismatch code smells so that they will work on larger, more complex programs

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6/15/2017

• Found benchmarks from JsNose to test our code smell detectors.

• Looked for a better way to implement parameter and argument mismatch so that our detector detect this code smell with function inside of other functions.

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6/16/2017

• continued finding ways to improve previous code smells and tested with benchmarks

• worked on midterm presentation

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6/19/2017

• Midterm presentation

• Revised parameter argument mismatch and this assignment

• Implemented 2 variables declared twice in one scope code smell

• watched a video by Elijah Manor on code smells to gain more information get ideas on new code smells

• began looking at complex switch statement code smell

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6/20/2017

• read and watched videos to get a clearer understanding of nested callbacks and began trying to implement a detector

• looked for ways to get the line number at which a code smell occurs to print it out to the console

• revised the depth code smells and tested with different programs to determine if the new algorithm works correctly

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• implemented the nested callback code smell and tested this detector on several programs to ensure that it works properly.

• started implementing the extra bind code smell and read articles to get a better understanding of this code smell.

• continued to test the depth code smell detector.

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6/22/2017

• implemented a detector for complex switch and continued to test the detector for depth

• read articles for the extra-bind code smell detector and continued trying to implement the detector for it.

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6/23/2071

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6/26/2071

• Created new algorithm for excessive message chain detection

• continued searching for ways to improve nested callback code smell detector to get rid of false positives

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6/27/2071

• continued testing depth code smell detector 

• worked on a new algorithm for the extra bind code smell

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6/28/2017

• workedon the depth algorthim to detect when there is a contine in an if statement 

• made progress with the algorithm for extra bind code smell

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7/3/2017

 - Tested parameter argument mismatch, nested callbacks, and extra bind on several benchmark files

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7/5/2017

-Continued to revise nested callback 
-Worked on rough draft for our research paper

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7/6/2017

- revised nested callback
-continued testing with benchmarks
-continued working on research paper

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7/7/2017

 - discussed progress with Dr. Lu
 - looked for ways to find the arguments in function calls within a function

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7/10/2017

-worked on research paper

-continued working on nested callback algorithm

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7/11/2017

-implemented the revised algorithm for nested callbacks

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-formatted our research paper

tested the revised nested callback detector

-Met with Dr. Lu to discuss our progress

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7/13/2017

-Worked on poster and research paper

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-finalized the poster

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