Master's Thesis: Building Code Cities using the Language Server Protocol

This is the $\LaTeX$ code for my master's thesis. Its style is based mainly on cleanthesis, but it adds some stylistic changes.

Building

Note

There are (at least) two reasons why following the instructions below wouldn't work:

1. The full results from the user study aren't publicly available.¹
2. My fork of tikzviolinplots isn't locally available.²

To build it, you'll first need to run the analysis script, which needs the results from the user study¹ to exist in the same directory:

cd analysis
uv run python3 analyze.py
cd ..

Then, do the same for the benchmarks (whose data has been included):

cd benchmark
uv run python3 benchmark.py
cd ..

And finally, build the master's thesis itself (parallelization here really helps speed up the TikZ compilations):

make -j $(nproc)

Folder Structure

We have the following directories:

• analysis: Contains scripts and data related to the analysis of the user study.
• benchmark: Contains scripts and data related to the technical evaluation.
• content: Contains the actual $\LaTeX$ content of the individual chapters.
• digital: Contains the contents of the digital appendix.
• exposé: Contains the source and PDF of the original Exposé.
• figures: Contains all figures for the thesis, including individual TikZ drawings.

Footnotes

1. These results have not been included here for privacy reasons. Anonymized results are available at digital/Eval-*.xlsx, but those won't immediately work due to the redacted fields, so you'd need to fill in some dummy data first (or modify the scripts). ↩ ↩²

2. To make the violin plots more readable, I added jittering functionality to tikzviolinplots in this PR. This has been merged by now, but it's not released as part of the package. My thesis still assumes a local version is available, so you need to clone the tikzviolinplots repository and put it in ../tikzviolinplots/ relative to the thesis. ↩