We adopt the view that CS1 labs are not programming assignments, and that they should not be used for grading students or assessing their level of understanding. Instead, we think...
Measuring effort accurately and consistently across subjects in a programming experiment can be a surprisingly difficult task. In particular, measures based on self-reported data ...
Lorin Hochstein, Victor R. Basili, Marvin V. Zelko...
The growing popularity of aspect-oriented languages, such as AspectJ, and of corresponding design approaches, makes it important to learn how best to modularize programs in which ...
Kevin J. Sullivan, William G. Griswold, Yuanyuan S...
Central to the problem frames approach is the distinction of three different descriptions: requirements R, domain assumptions W and specifications S, tied together with the socall...
Thein Than Tun, Jon G. Hall, Lucia Rapanotti, Karl...
When developing concurrent software, a proper engineering practice is to choose a good level of abstraction for expressing concurrency control. Ideally, this level should provide p...
Claude Kaiser, Christophe Pajault, Jean-Fran&ccedi...