Do we stop learning from our mistakes when using automatic code analysis tools? An experiment proposal

Jan Peter Ostberg, Stefan Wagner

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Abstract

When we learn how to program, we often do that by trial and error. We struggle with the syntax and with our own understanding of how the idea of the program should look like in the specific programming language. Today there is a huge amount of tools available, which automatically check your code and recommend alterations to the code for the sake of maintainability or correctness. The question, that has not yet been asked by science, is: Are we still learning something from these mistakes, besides the knowledge, that such mistakes will be corrected for us? In the following we will propose an experimental setup, that aims to answer this question.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2012 1st International Workshop on User Evaluation for Software Engineering Researchers, USER 2012 - Proceedings
Pages21-24
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
Event2012 1st International Workshop on User Evaluation for Software Engineering Researchers, USER 2012 - Zurich, Switzerland
Duration: 5 Jun 20125 Jun 2012

Publication series

Name2012 1st International Workshop on User Evaluation for Software Engineering Researchers, USER 2012 - Proceedings

Conference

Conference2012 1st International Workshop on User Evaluation for Software Engineering Researchers, USER 2012
Country/TerritorySwitzerland
CityZurich
Period5/06/125/06/12

Keywords

  • experiment
  • Learning
  • static code analysis

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