Schedule for 05-899D: Human Aspects of Software Development (HASD)

Introduction
Given by: Brad Myers

PowerPoint Slides for Lecture 1

Required Readings:

• Brad A. Myers, John F. Pane and Andy Ko, "Natural Programming Languages and Environments". Communications of the ACM. (special issue on End-User Development). Sept, 2004, vol. 47, no. 9. pp. 47-52. pdf

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HCI Research Methods, part 1: Using exploratory and evaluation studies
Given by: Thomas LaToza

PDF of Slides for Lecture 2

Required Readings:

• Saul Greenberg and Bill Buxton. 2008. Usability evaluation considered harmful (some of the time). In Proceeding of the twenty-sixth annual SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI '08). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 111-120.
  • This paper, despite ostensibly being about the risks of usability evaluation, is really about how the whole HCI design process works or should work, how to do it rigorously, and the role of usability evaluation and other evaluations in this.

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HCI Research Methods, part 2: Analyzing data
Given by: Thomas LaToza

PDF of Slides for Lecture 3

Required Readings:

• B. A. Kitchenham, S. L. Pfleeger, L. M. Pickard, et al.. "Preliminary guidelines for empirical research in software engineering." IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 28, No. 8. (2002), pp. 721-734. Saul Greenberg and Bill Buxton. 2008.
  • This paper is all about the method, data analysis, and result details that you should do and report in writing a paper when running at study.

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5.2 Designing and Documenting APIs
Given by: Brad Myers

PowerPoint Slides for Lecture 4

Required Readings:

• Brian Ellis, Jeffrey Stylos, and Brad Myers. "The Factory Pattern in API Design: A Usability Evaluation". International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'2007). May 20-26, 2007. Minneapolis, MN. pp. 302-312. ACM or local pdf .
  • This paper is about a study of the Factory Pattern. We started by asking how developers would "naturally" express creating objects, in which none used factories, and then performed a lab study, and found that the time to develop using factories took 2.1 to 5.3 times longer compared to regular constructors across a variety of tasks.

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6.1 Exploring code
Presented by Thomas LaToza

PDF of Slides for Lecture 5

Required Readings:

• Thomas D. LaToza and Brad A. Myers. 2010. Developers ask reachability questions. In Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 1 (ICSE '10), Vol. 1. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 185-194

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4.2 Coordinating developers
Presented by Prof. Jim Herbsleb

PDF of Slides for Lecture 6

Required Readings:

• Herbsleb, J.D. & Mockus, A. (2003). An empirical study of speed and communication in globally-distributed software development. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 29(3), 1-14. (pdf).

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8.3 Debugging
Presented by Thomas LaToza

PDF of Slides for Lecture 7

Required Readings:

• Ko, A. J. and Myers B.A. (2009). Finding Causes of Program Output with the Java Whyline. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '09), Boston, MA, 1569-1578. pdf

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Groups Present Their Initial Plans

3.2 Software Visualization
Presented by Brad Myers 

PowerPoint Slides for Lecture 9

Required Readings:

• B.A. Price, R.M. Baecker, and I.S. Small (1993), “A Principled Taxonomy of Software Visualization,” J. Visual Languages and Computing, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 211-266, 1993. pdf

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7.6 Navigating working sets
Presented by Brad Myers

PowerPoint Slides for Lecture 10

Required Readings:

• Ko, A. J., Aung, H., and Myers, B. A. (2005). Eliciting Design Requirements for Maintenance-Oriented IDEs: A Detailed Study of Corrective and Perfective Maintenance Tasks. International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'05). St. Louis, MO: pp. 126-135. (Winner, Distinguished Paper Award). pdf

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3.1 Learning to program, how people naturally think about computation
Presented by Cyrus Omar

PowerPoint Slides for Lecture 11

Required Readings:

• Gary Lewandowski, Dennis J. Bouvier, Robert McCartney, Kate Sanders, and Beth Simon. Commonsense computing (episode 3): concurrency and concert tickets. In Proceedings of the third international workshop on Computing education research (ICER '07). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 133-144. ACM DL or pdf

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4.1 Designing with Diagrams
Presented by Chris Martens

PDF of Slides for Lecture 12

Required Readings:

• Helen C. Purchase, Ray Welland, Matthew McGill, Linda Colpoys. (2004). Comprehension of diagram syntax: an empirical study of entity relationship notations. Int. J. Hum.-Comput. Stud. 61(2): 187-203. pdf

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4.3 Finding experts, maintaining awareness, onboarding
Presented by Kun Niu

PowerPoint Slides for Lecture 13

Required Readings:

• Thomas Fritz, Jingwen Ou, Gail C. Murphy, and Emerson Murphy-Hill. 2010. A degree-of-knowledge model to capture source code familiarity. In Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 1 (ICSE '10), vol. 1. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 385-394. pdf

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NO CLASS: presentations postponed until Friday, March 4

5.1 Finding code to reuse
Presented by Kerry Chang

PowerPoint Slides for Lecture 14

Required Readings:

• Yunwen Ye and Gerhard Fischer. 2002. Supporting reuse by delivering task-relevant and personalized information. In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE '02). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 513-523. ACM DL

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6.3 Reading code (program comprehension, mental models of programs, and effects of expertise)
Presented by Stephen Oney

PowerPoint Slides for Lecture 15

Required Readings:

• Soloway, Elliot; Ehrlich, Kate; , "Empirical Studies of Programming Knowledge," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. SE-10, no.5, pp.595-609, Sept. 1984. pdf

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Special class: 10:30-11:50 in Gates GHC 5222
Groups Present Their Study of Existing Practice

10.5 Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
Presented by Prof. Mark Paulk

PowerPoint Slides for Lecture 17

Required Readings:

• Mike Phillips and Sandy Shrum, “Process Improvement for All: What to Expect from CMMIVersion 1.3”, IEEE Crosstalk, January/February 2010, pp. 10-14, IEEE pdf or local pdf

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8.1 Causes of bugs, preventing bugs
Presented by Joshua Sunshine

PowerPoint Slides for Lecture 18

Required Readings:

• Nachiappan Nagappan, Thomas Ball, Andreas Zeller. "Mining Metrics to Predict Component Failures". Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering, Shanghai, China, May 2006. ACM DL.

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7.3 Visual languages
Presented by Vishal Dwivedi

PowerPoint Slides for Lecture 19

Required Readings:

• Kirsten N. Whitley. (1997). Visual Programming Languages and the Empirical Evidence For and Against. J. Vis. Lang. Comput. 8(1): 109-142.

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7.5 Evolving and improving code: (Copy and paste; Refactoring; Reviewing changes)
Presented by YoungSeok Yoon

PowerPoint Slides for Lecture 20

Required Readings:

• Miryung Kim, Lawrence Bergman, Tessa Lau, David Notkin," An Ethnographic Study of Copy and Paste Programming Practices in OOPL," International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering, pp. 83-92, 2004 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering (ISESE'04), 2004
IEEE DL

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9.2 End-User Programming for Scientists
Presented by Cyrus Omar

PowerPoint Slides for Lecture 21

Required Readings:

• Judith Segal. 2008. "Models of Scientific Software Development," In Proc. 2008 Workshop Software Eng. in Computational Science and Eng. (SECSE08). 13 May 2008, Leipzig, Germany. pdf.

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7.1 Languages and tools for novice and end-user programmers
Presented by Brad Myers

PowerPoint Slides for Lecture 22

Required Readings:

• Caitlin Kelleher and Randy Pausch. “Lowering the barriers to programming: A taxonomy of programming environments and languages for novice programmers,” ACM Comput. Surv. 2005. 37(2). pp. 83-137. ACM

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Groups Present Their Prototype of a New Tool

10. Programming Processes (Pair Programming; Agile; Test-driven development; Code organization techniques)
Presented by Kun Niu 

PowerPoint Slides for Lecture 24

Required Readings:

• Andrew Begel and Nachiappan Nagappan. Usage and Perceptions of Agile Software Development in an Industrial Context: An Exploratory Study. In the First International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Metrics (ESEM), Madrid, Spain, September 2007. pp. 255 - 264. pdf

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7.2 Programming by example
Presented by Kerry Chang

PowerPoint Slides for Lecture 25

Required Readings:

• Jiun-Hung Chen and Daniel S. Weld. 2008. Recovering from errors during programming by demonstration. In Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces(IUI '08). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 159-168. ACM

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7.4 Textual languages and editors
Presented by Stephen Oney

PowerPoint Slides for Lecture 26

Required Readings:

• Andrew J. Ko and Brad A. Myers. "Citrus: A Toolkit for Simplifying the Creation of Structured Editors for Code and Data." ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST'05, October 23-26, 2005, Seattle, WA. pp. 3-12. pdf

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9.1 End-User Software Engineering in General
Presented by Vishal Dwivedi

PowerPoint Slides for Lecture 27

Required Readings:

• Margaret Burnett, "What Is End-User Software Engineering and Why Does It Matter?". IS-EUD'09 invited paper. pdf

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8.2 Reporting and triaging bugs
presented by YoungSeok Yoon

PowerPoint Slides for Lecture 28

Required Readings:

• Philip J. Guo, Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan, Brendan Murphy. "Characterizing and Predicting Which Bugs Get Fixed: An Empirical Study of Microsoft Windows." In Proceedings of the 32th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2010), Cape Town, South Africa, May 2010. pdf

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Groups Present Their Lab study comparing two versions