Informatics 219 Fall 2011

Informatics 219: Software Environments

Fall Quarter 2011

Instructor:	Susan Elliott Sim
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Office hours:	DBH 5226 T Th 9:30-10:30am Other times by Appointment
Lectures:	Tuesday 2:00-4:50pm, ICS 225
Web site:	http://www.drsusansim.org/teaching/inf219/
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Description - Schedule - Grading - Materials - Policies

Description

Catalog description:
Study of the requirements, concepts, and architectures of comprehensive, integrated, software development and maintenance environments. Major topics include process support, object management, communication, interoperability, measurement, analysis, and user interfaces in the environment context. Formerly ICS 228.

Description of this installment of 219:
We will be examining the environments in which software is developed, including not only the the tool environments, but also the cognitive, social, and organizational contexts. We will be reading classic and current papers, but a significant portion of the time will be devoted to a research project to be undertaken by the students in groups of two.

Textbooks

The majority of the readings in the course will be papers available through the IEEE or ACM Digital Libraries.

Schedule

Week	Date	Topic
1	September 27	Introduction Margaret-Anne Storey, "Theories, Tools and Research Methods in Program Comprehension: Past, Present and Future," Software Quality Journal, vol 14, pp.187-208, September 2006 Bill Curtis, Herb Krasner, and Neil Iscoe, "A Field Study of the Software Design Process for Large Systems," Communications of the ACM, vol. 31, no. 11, November, 1988.
2	October 4	What Developers Need I Francoise Detienne, "Chapter 3. Software Design: Theoretical Approaches" in Software Design: Cognitive Aspects, Springer, 2001. Alberto . Janice Singer, Timothy Lethbridge, Norman Vinson, and Nicolas Anquetil, "An Examination of Software Engineering Work Practices," Proceedings of CASCON 1997, Toronto, Canada, pp. 21-30, October, 1997. Margaret Burnett, Curtis Cook, and Gregg Rothermel, "End-User Software Engineering," Communications of the ACM, vol. 47, no. 9, pp. 53-58, September, 2004. Fang
3	October 11	Rememberance Day - no class
4	October 18	Cool Tools I J. des Rivieres and J. Wiegand, "Eclipse: A Platform for Integrating Development Tools," IBM Systems Journal, vol. 43, no. 2, 2004. James Mik Kersten and Gail C. Murphy, "Using Task Context to Improve Programmer Productivity," Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE2006), pp. 1-11, 5-11 November 2006. Björn Hartman, Mark Dhillon, and Mark K. Chan, "HyperSource: bridging the gap between source and code-related web sites," Proceedings of the 2011 Annual Conference on Human actors in Computing Systems (CHI2011). Markus Project Proposals due
5	October 25	Evaluating Environments I Joseph E. McGrath. "Methodology Matters: Doing Research in the Behavioral and Social Sciences." in Readings in Human-Computer Interaction: Toward the Year 2000, edited by Ronald M. Baecker, Jonathan Grudin, William A. S. Buxton, and Saul Greenberg, pp. 152-169, Morgan Kaufmann, 1995. Susan Elliott Sim and Margaret-Anne D. Storey, "A Structured Demonstration of Program Comprehension Tools," Proceedings of the Seventh Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE2000), Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, pp. 184-193, 23-25 November 2000. Alberto Anita Sarma, Ban Al-Ani, Erik Trainer, Roberto F. Silva Filho, Isabella A. da Silva, David Redmiles, André van der Hoek, Continuous Coordination Tools and their Evaluation, in Ivan Mistrí k, John Grundy, André van der Hoek, Jim Whitehead (eds.), Collaborative Software Engineering, Springer, Ch. 8, pp. 153-178. Tiago
6	November 1	Susan away- no class
7	November 8	What Developers Need II Andrew J. Ko, Brad A. Myers, Michael J. Coblenz, and Htet Htet Aung, "An Exploratory Study of How Developers Seek, Relate, and Collect Relevant Information during Software Maintenance," Tasks" IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 32, no. 21, pp.971-987, December 2006. Alberto Susan Elliott Sim and Richard C. Holt, "The Ramp-Up Problem in Software Projects: A Case Study of How Software Immigrants Naturalize," Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE1998), Kyoto, Japan, pp. 361-370, 19-25 April, 1998. Markus Joel Brandt, Philip J. Guo, Joel Lewenstein, Mira Dontcheva, Scott R. Klemmer "Two Studies of Opportunistic Programming: Interleaving Web Foraging, Learning, and Writing Code," Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Human factors in Computing systems (CHI2009)
8	November 15	Cool Tools II Workshops Markus and Tiago Papers Martin P. Robillard and Gail C. Murphy, "Representing Concerns in Source Code," ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 1-38, February 2007. Robert DeLine, Mary Czerwinski, and George Robertson, "Easing Program Comprehension by Sharing Navigation Data," 2005 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, pp. 241-248, 20-24 September 2005. Markus
9	November 22	Cool Tools III Workshops James, Alberto, and Fang Papers Denys Poshyvanyk, Yann-Gael Gueheneuc, Andrian Marcus, Guiliano Antoniol, and Vaclav Rajlich. "Combining Probabilistic Ranking and Latent Semantic Indexing for Feature Identification", Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC2006), Athens, Greece, pp. 137-146, June 14-17, 2006. James Christoph Treude, Ohad Barzilay, and Margaret-Anne Storey, "How do programmers ask and answer questions on the web?: NIER track," Proceeding of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE2011). Tiago
10	November 29	Evaluating Environments II Brian de Alwis, Gail C. Murphy, and Martin P. Robillard, "A Comparative Study of Three Program Exploration Tools," Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension, pp. 103-112, 26-29 June 2007. James Farah Hanna and Timothy C. Lethbridge, "Temporal Exploration of Software Models: A Tool Feature to Enhance Software Understanding," Proceedings of the Fourteenth Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE2007), pp. 41-49, 28-31 October 2007. Tiago Stefan Endrikat and Stefan Hanenberg, "Is Aspect-Oriented Programming a Rewarding Investment into Future Code Changes? A Socio-technical Study on Development and Maintenance Time," Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Program Comprehension, (ICPC2011), pp. 51-60, 22-24 June 2011. Fang
11	December 8	Project Presentations 1:30-3:30pm Projects due

Grading and Evaluations

Grading.
Term Project 70%
Participation 30%
Students enrolled in the course will earn a letter grade based upon: (a) their demonstrated understanding of the class topic; (b) class attendance and participation; (c) the critical opinions, questions, and challenges shared with the class to seed the discussions; (d) the feedback that they provide to their peers on their projects; and (e) the class project.

Term Project.
For the term project for this course will consist of original research on a topic software environments. The project will be undertaken in teams of two. A report describing the research is due at the last meeting of the course. There is a list of suggested topics available, but students are encouraged to find their own topics. Process. Substantial latitude will be allowed in choosing the topic, but all topics must be related software environments and approved in advance by the instructor (see Project Proposal).
Due Thursday, December 8, 2011.

Project Proposal.
The project proposal will be a preliminary description of the term project to be undertaken. It should describe the idea being investigated and how the research will be conducted (e.g. the research question and methods). Since this is a preliminary description, changes are permitted as the research progresses. However, radical changes, e.g. selecting a new field site, are discouraged after this time.
Due Monday, October 17. (by email)

Project Workshop.
The project workshop is a learning opportunity for both students presenting their projects and the students participating. Each project team will give a presentation during the second half of the quarter on their research in progress. The presentation should be 15-20 minutes in length. It should give an overview of the topic and discuss open problems. The workshop format allows students to work out problems in their project and to solicit feedback and assistance from peers. The presenters can use this as an opportunity to: (a) present and articulate their ideas; (b) ask for suggestions on how to solve problems; (c) recommendations for related work; and (d) have their work critiqued and reviewed by others. By the same token, the non-presenting students are expected to be active participants in the workshop and giving constructive feedback. As well, they should be using the workshop to see how research happens.

Policies

Cheating. The UCI academic honesty policy applies. Consequences of cheating in this class: A letter in your UCI file, and the course grade is lowered, possibly to F. Material that is copied from books or Web pages needs to be quoted and the source must be given.

Disabilities. If you need an accommodation because of a disability, please contact the instructor and the Disability Services Center as soon as possible.

Susan Elliott Sim