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Troubleshooting Personnel's Satisfaction with Software Tools
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Heaton, Robert – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2018
An exploratory survey of midsize land-grant institutions in 2016 investigated factors that were potentially correlated with how satisfied library personnel were with the software tools they used in electronic-resource troubleshooting. Although the study was very small in scale, it found that troubleshooting personnel at responding libraries are…
Descriptors: Library Personnel, User Satisfaction (Information), Computer Software, Troubleshooting
Turnitoff: Identifying and Fixing a Hole in Current Plagiarism Detection Software
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Heather, James – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2010
In recent times, "plagiarism detection software" has become popular in universities and colleges, in an attempt to stem the tide of plagiarised student coursework. Such software attempts to detect any copied material and identify its source. The most popular such software is Turnitin, a commercial system used by thousands of institutions…
Descriptors: Plagiarism, Computer Software, Computer Software Evaluation, Computer System Design
Students' Strategies for Exception Handling
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Rashkovits, Rami; Lavy, Ilana – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2011
This study discusses and presents various strategies employed by novice programmers concerning exception handling. The main contributions of this paper are as follows: we provide an analysis tool to measure the level of assimilation of exception handling mechanism; we present and analyse strategies to handle exceptions; we present and analyse…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Programming Languages, Computer Software, Computer Software Evaluation
Tailoring Software Inspections for Aspect-Oriented Programming
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Watkins, Charlette Ward – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD) is a new approach that addresses limitations inherent in conventional programming, especially the principle of separation of concerns by emphasizing the encapsulation and modularization of crosscutting concerns through a new abstraction, the "aspect." Aspect-oriented programming is an emerging AOSD…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Programming Languages, Identification, Computer Software
BlueJ Visual Debugger for Learning the Execution of Object-Oriented Programs?
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Bennedsen, Jens; Schulte, Carsten – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2010
This article reports on an experiment undertaken in order to evaluate the effect of a program visualization tool for helping students to better understand the dynamics of object-oriented programs. The concrete tool used was BlueJ's debugger and object inspector. The study was done as a control-group experiment in an introductory programming…
Descriptors: Programming, Introductory Courses, Control Groups, Experimental Groups
Involving Software Engineering Students in Open Source Software Projects: Experiences from a Pilot Study
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Sowe, Sulayman K.; Stamelos, Ioannis G. – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2007
Anecdotal and research evidences show that the Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS) development model has produced a paradigm shift in the way we develop, support, and distribute software. This shift is not only redefining the software industry but also the way we teach and learn in our software engineering (SE) courses. But for many universities…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Curriculum Development, Teaching Methods, College Instruction