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Ducky's Homework / Research

I am working for Gail Murphy, looking at programmer productivity. I've gone through several ideas for thesis topics so far:

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- Gel (Windows only, dormant)
- BlueJ -- teaching tool; not sure if it scales
ask Mik/Rob re visualization

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Rob's thesis mentions that 58-81% of web navigation is to previously seen pages, but passes on saying what % is for source. That would be interesting to try to pull out of Mylar data.

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Rob's thesis mentions that 58-81% of web navigation is to previously seen pages, but passes on saying what % is for source. That would be interesting to try to pull out of Mylar data. (Did I finish his thesis?)

Bannon et al: "[D]igressions are frequent. When a record is made of these commands as they occur temporarily, as in the history list, information on the tasks and goals of the users is lost."
good stuff here: http://portal.acm.org/results.cfm?coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=19182022&CFTOKEN=49296027

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Bannon et al: "[D]igressions are frequent. When a record is made of these commands as they occur temporarily, as in the history list, information on the tasks and goals of the users is lost."
good stuff here: http://portal.acm.org/results.cfm?coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=19182022&CFTOKEN=49296027

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http://www.sei.cmu.edu/publications/documents/97.reports/97tr012/97tr012title.htm

http://valgrind.org/downloads/current.html

http://valgrind.org/downloads/variants.html

http://www.ndparking.com/stlabs.com

http://lclint.cs.virginia.edu/

http://www.st.cs.uni-sb.de/eclipse/

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/

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daikon

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http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?DoNotUseAssertions

http://www.research.att.com/viewProject.cfm?prjID=67

http://www.parasoft.com/jsp/home.jsp

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~davida/guard/

http://www.sos.cs.ru.nl/research/escjava/

http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~leavens/JML/

http://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/

http://www.codesurfer.com/products/codesurfer/overview.html

http://www.st.cs.uni-sb.de/dd/

http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~jeffery/aadebug.html

http://www.checkpointing.org/

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http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?DoNotUseAssertions
http://www.research.att.com/viewProject.cfm?prjID=67
http://www.parasoft.com/jsp/home.jsp
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~davida/guard/
http://www.sos.cs.ru.nl/research/escjava/
http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~leavens/JML/
http://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/
http://www.codesurfer.com/products/codesurfer/overview.html
http://www.st.cs.uni-sb.de/dd/
http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~jeffery/aadebug.html
http://www.checkpointing.org/
http://www.gnu.org/software/nana/nana.html
DDD - gui debugger front-end, probably not that interesting since Eclipse has a gui debugger
http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com/Web_Links-index-req-viewlink-cid-830.html AskIgor

Current hypotheses

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H0: Most of time "wasted" is due to false hypotheses.

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H0: Most of time "wasted" is due to false hypotheses. (is there a ko paper that says so?)

H1: People make false hypotheses frequently.
H2: Breadth-first search when seeking verification for a hypothesis is on average faster than a depth-first search.
H3: The "three hypotheses" approach is useful.

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