Google Summer of Code 2019/Web UI improvements

Title: Web UI improvements

• Description: Software Heritage can be accessed through a beautiful and rich Web UI, developed in Django. This project was aimed at improving the web interface (swh-web).

• Student: Kalpit Kothari
  • Forge Activity
  • List Of Commits

• Mentors:
  • Antoine Lambert
  • Valentin Lorentz

• Work highlights
  • Security testing : Various XSS vulnerabilities were fixed in the website.
  • End-to-end Testing : End-to-end tests were written for the website in Cypress (JavaScript framework). 71 percent JavaScript code coverage was achieved. These are end-to-end test are already being being executed for each swh-web diff.
  • Other Improvements : Language select option, improve responsiveness, some UI enhancements, improve image & pdf rendering, redirection for uppercase hash

• What's left
  • We stand a bit away from 80% code coverage mark for the front-end JavaScript. There is scope of adding more cypress tests.
  • Origin search interface may be further improved. Some tests are already written for the same which should make the task easier.
  • Update of readme with information about end-to-end tests.

• Activity reports:
  • May 2019
    • Week 21 (Community Bonding)
    • Week 22
  • June 2019
    • Week 23
    • Week 24
    • Week 25
    • Week 26 (First Evaluation)
  • July 2019
    • Week 27
    • Week 28
    • Week 29
    • Week 30 (Second Evaluation)
  • August 2019
    • Week 31
    • Week 32
    • Week 33
    • Week 34 (Final Evaluation)

Links

• swh-web
• see project on the GSoC portal