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| Date | Topic & Material | Deliverable |
| 14.9 |
Introduction
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| 21.9 | (Empirical) Research in Software Engineering
What makes good research in software engineering?, Shaw, International Journal on Software Tools for Technology, 2002. A practical guide to controlled experiments of software engineering tools with human participants. Ko, LaToza, Burnett, ESE, 2013. Experimental models for validating technology, Zelkowitz et al., IEEE Computer, 1998.
Some questions that developers or data scientists ask about developers (as ideas for projects):
Optional (not required!): Preliminary guidelines for empirical research in software engineering, Kitchenham et al., IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2002. |
ONE question/problem and a way to address/study it in a course project
writeup (1page) and presentation (2 slides in PDF) due on Sunday 20.9
present to class 21.9 and take part in discussion of papers |
| 28.09 |
Developer Productivity (P1) The Work Life of Developers: Activities, Switches and Perceived Productivity. Meyer et al., TSE 2017.
(P2) What predicts software developers' productivity? Murphy-Hill et al., IEEE TSE 2019.
(P3) How gamification affects software developers: cautionary evidence from a quasi-experiment on GitHub. Moldon et al., arXiv.org, 2020.
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response paper, leading of part of the discussion, participation |
| 05.10 | Sensing Developers
(S1) Using psycho-physiological measures to assess task difficulty in software development. Fritz, Begel, Müller,Yigit-Elliott, Züger. ICSE'14.
(S2) Recognizing Developers' Emotions while Programming. Girardi, Novielli, Fucci, Lanubile. ICSE'20. (S3) Learning a Metric for Code Readability. Buse et al., TSE 2008. |
response paper, lead discussion; proposal for project by the end of the week |
| 12.10 |
Developer Support: Workflow & Breaks (D1) Context-Aware Conversational Developer Assistants. Bradley et al., ICSE 2018.
(D2) Evaluating Cues for Resuming Interrupted Programming Tasks. Parnin et al., CHI 2010. (D3) Time for Break: Understanding Information Workers’ Sedentary Behavior Through a Break Prompting System. Luo et al., CHI 2018. |
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| 14.10 | Project Proposal due |
Project Proposal 15/16.10: proposal discussions |
| 19.10 | Presenting proposals in class | Proposal presentation |
| 20.10 | Final Proposal Due | Project Proposal |
| 26.10 |
Developer Support: Task Context and more + Weekly Scrum (D4) Using task context to improve programmer productivity. Kersten and Murphy. FSE'06.
(D5) Augmenting Code with In Situ Visualizations to Aid Program Understanding. Hoffswell et al., CHI 2018. (D6) Helping developers help themselves: automatic decomposition of code review changesets. Barnett et al., ICSE 2015. |
short update report, response paper, leading of part of the discussion |
| 02.11 |
Scrum + weekly meetings |
short update report |
| 09.11 |
Meetings & Progress Report
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short update report, |
| 16.11 | Quick Update Presentation in Class & Discussion in Class |
short presentation, covering (1) problem/motivation/related work, (2) hypothesis & research questions, (3) study method / evaluation, (4) current state, next steps & issues |
| 23.11 | Quick Update Presentation in Class & Discussion in Class | short presentation + one page writeup of results |
| 30.11 | Scrum + Weekly meeting (10 mins) |
almost finished version of project report with finished related work section. Draft report due on 29.11 midnight! |
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6.12 8pm |
Project report is due & you will receive two reports for reviewing |
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10.12 12pm noon |
Peer reviews are due & you will receive two peer-reviews for your project report for possible feedback before the presentation |
peer-reviews of two other reports |
| 14.12 | Presenting project to class | presentation |
