We know surprisingly little about how professional developers define debugging and the challenges they face in industrial environments. To begin exploring professional debugging …
Our current research is focused on identifying system engineering approaches that address four key development challenges in a tightly constrained, rapid reaction environment: 1) …
Utilizing pair programming in the classroom requires specific classroom management techniques. We have created nine guidelines for successfully implementing pair programming in the …
The longer a fault remains in the code from the time it was injected, the more time it will take to fix the fault. Increasingly, automated fault detection (AFD) tools are providing …
Despite many professed benefits of collaboration, some computer science educators feel students need to master work individually, particularly in the courses early in the …
Millennial students (those born after 1982), particularly African Americans and women, have demonstrated a propensity toward collaborative activities. We conducted a collective …
Collaborative work has been in use as an instructional tool to increase student understanding through collaborative learning and to improve student performance in computer science …
One of the reasons that undergraduate students, particularly women and minorities, can become disenchanted with computer science education is because software development is …
This paper presents the results of an initial quantitative investigation to assess a variety of factors that potentially affect the collaborative software development experience. …