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Hello fellow developers, I'm once again asking for your help 😶🌫️
I'm writing my Master's thesis on the developer experience of GitHub Copilot. As part of my thesis research, I'll be conducting user studies, and for the sake of being able to reach more participants, I'd like to conduct some of the studies online.
The user studies would involve the participants interacting with React or .NET/C# projects.
Therefore, I'm looking for a way to conduct the online user studies.
My requirements are as follows:
- The participants should not be required to download of install anything on their own computers (I thought about just giving them a GitHub repo to clone but I figured many developers would not be comfortable running random code on their own machines - besides, the potential issues because of mismatched framework versions or other shenanigans is not something one would want to deal with during a user study 😄 )
AND
- The participants should be able to open the project with their preferred IDE (meaning that environments that offer only in-browser IDEs are not suitable)
I have checked out platforms such as CodeInterview, Codedamn and Stackblitz but they seem to only support in-browser IDEs. GitHub Codespaces only supports Visual Studio Code (and JetBrains and JupyterLab in beta) - at least that's the impression I get from the landing page and documentation.
Do you have any ideas as to how I could approach this? Any suggestions and pointers are very much appreciated!
Thank you all in advance :)
This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Aide
Aide | Sciencx (2025-03-20T14:15:11+00:00) [Help wanted] IDE-Flexible and No-Install Solution for User Studies?. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2025/03/20/help-wanted-ide-flexible-and-no-install-solution-for-user-studies/
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