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  • Understanding Software Development and Testing Practices

    Creator:
    Hilton, Michael
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    A bad software development process leads to wasted effort and inferior products. In order to improve a software process, it must be first understood. In this work I focus on understanding software processes. The first process we seek to understand is Continuous Integration (CI). CI systems automate the compilation, building,...
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    Software Development and Testing Practices Abstract approved: Daniel Dig A bad software development

  • An Investigation of the Effects of Merge Conflicts on Collaborative Software Development

    Creator:
    Brindescu, Caius
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    Merge conflicts have long plagued software development. With larger and more dispersed teams comes greater risk of developers working on the same code at the same time. While merge conflicts are known to be painful, their exact impact on software is still largely unknown. Are merge conflicts an isolated problem,...
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    Dissertation
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    of the Effects of Merge Conflicts on Collaborative Software Development Abstract approved: Anita

  • Co-producing Software for Environmental and Ecological Visualization

    Creator:
    Zanocco, Chad
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    Environmental scientists, land managers, and policy actors are increasingly presented with high-stakes high-uncertainty problems stemming from human-ecosystem interactions. To help address these problems, scientists frequently use models that produce enormous geospatial and temporal datasets that are constantly modified and often seek input from communities outside their discipline. To assist scientists—as...
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    development of domain-specific software as part of the Visualization of Terrestrial and Aquatic Systems

  • A meta-model for software process maturity

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    Oregon State University. Dept. of Computer Science, Visconti, Marcello, and Cook, Curtis R.
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    We present a meta-model as a process maturity framework that can be effectively used to identify the key practices to initiate and sustain a software process improvement effort focused on a single process area. Our approach moves away from the overall software development process and computation of maturity levels and...
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    Research Paper
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    overall software development process and computation of maturity levels and focuses on a particular

  • How well do professional developers test with code coverage visualizations? An empirical study

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    Oregon State University. Dept. of Computer Science, Lawrance, Joseph A., Clarke, Steven, Burnett, Margaret, 1949-, and Rothermel, Gregg
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    "Code coverage visualizations using block coverage neither guided developers toward productive testing strategies, nor did these visualizations motivate developers to write more tests or help them find more faults than the control group. Nevertheless, code coverage visualizations did influence developers in a few important ways. Code coverage visualizations led developers...
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    Research Paper
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    study, imagine you work for Acme Inc., a software development company that develops and sells class

  • Diagramming practices in open source software development

    Creator:
    Chung, Eunyoung
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    Visual information presented in diagrams promotes information processing both in an individual and in collaborative work. Previous literature has identified the role of diagrams in understanding information processing in a variety of disciplines. In software engineering, diagrams are a prevalent method involved in process development: diagrams are used for system...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Science presented on May 12, 2010. Title: Diagramming Practices in Open Source Software Development

  • How well do professional developers test with code coverage visualizations? : an empirical study

    Creator:
    Lawrance, Joseph A.
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    Professional software developers do not test code adequately, even though testing tools are widely available. Until developers realize the deficiencies in their tests, inadequate testing of software seems likely to remain a major problem. To support developers writing tests, industry and researchers have proposed systems that visualize “testedness” for end-user...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Professional software developers do not test code adequately, even though testing tools are widely available

  • Supporting the learning process of open source novices : an evaluation of code and project history visualization tools

    Creator:
    Park, Yunrim
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    Active participation and collaboration of community members are crucial to the continuation and expansion of open source software projects. Researchers have recognized the value of community in open source development and studied various aspects of it including structure of communities, motivations for participation, and collaboration among members. However, the majority...
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    Masters Thesis
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    source projects provide enough information that is important to perform software development/maintenance

  • Update programming -- a safe approach to software maintenance

    Creator:
    Ren, Deling
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    Software maintenance accounts for a large portion of the software development cost, particularly the process of updating programs either to adapt for requirement change or to enhance design or efficiency. Currently, program updates are generally performed manually by programmers using text editors. This is an unreliable method because syntax and...
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    Dissertation

  • Modeling programmer navigation : an empirical evaluation of predictive models

    Creator:
    Piorkowski, David
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    Software developers frequently need to perform code maintenance tasks, but doing so requires time-consuming navigation through code. A variety of tools are aimed at easing this navigation by using models to predict places in the code that a developer might want to visit, and then providing shortcuts so that the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    to provide enhanced software development tools that ease the difficulty of navigating through code