ICSE 2024
Fri 12 - Sun 21 April 2024 Lisbon, Portugal
Thu 18 Apr 2024 11:45 - 12:00 at Amália Rodrigues - Evolution 2 Chair(s): Massimiliano Di Penta

Code quality and maintainability are among under-emphasized and often neglected topics in the curriculum of software engineering (SE) in higher education.This neglect tends to overlook research findings that demonstrate SE students’ programming submissions most often exhibit severe code quality issues, which are frequently left unaddressed by the students.Furthermore, it can result in the software engineering curriculum becoming indifferent to the essential requirements of the software development industry, where code quality and maintainability play a crucial role in the software’s cost throughout its life cycle.

Therefore, SE students in higher education should be trained to master the knowledge and skills of writing high-quality code. One possible approach to improving students’ understanding of code quality issues is to provide automatically generated formative feedback about the code quality aspects of their programming submissions throughout the code development process. However, while there are tools available for generating automated feedback on the code quality aspects of programming submissions, they often lack a set of theory-driven design principles to underpin the content and presentation of their provided feedback. This lack of theoretical foundation makes it difficult to follow a systematic approach to designing and developing such tools, reasoning about their quality, and evaluating the effectiveness of their generated feedback.

To address this lack, this study provides nine contextualized design principles for generating automated formative feedback on code quality. These design principles are rooted in solid educational constructs about feedback and learning dashboards, and empirically validated and contextualized by two focus group sessions consisting of 8 senior SE students and 2 teachers.

Thu 18 Apr

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11:00 - 12:30
11:00
15m
Talk
On Using GUI Interaction Data to Improve Text Retrieval-based Bug Localization
Research Track
Junayed Mahmud George Mason University, Nadeeshan De Silva William & Mary, Safwat Ali Khan George Mason University, Seyed Hooman Mostafavi George Mason University, S M Hasan Mansur George Mason University, Oscar Chaparro William & Mary, Andrian (Andi) Marcus The University of Texas at Dallas, Kevin Moran University of Central Florida
11:15
15m
Talk
DEMISTIFY: Identifying On-device Machine Learning Models Stealing and Reuse Vulnerabilities in Mobile Apps
Research Track
Pengcheng Ren Shandong University, Chaoshun Zuo Ohio State University, Xiaofeng Liu Shandong University, Wenrui Diao Shandong University, Qingchuan Zhao City University of Hong Kong, Shanqing Guo Shandong University
11:30
15m
Talk
How do Developers Talk about GitHub Actions? Evidence from Online Software Development Community
Research Track
Yang Zhang National University of Defense Technology, China, Yiwen Wu National University of Defense Technology, Tingting Chen College of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, Tao Wang National University of Defense Technology, Hui Liu Beijing Institute of Technology, Huaimin Wang
11:45
15m
Paper
Design principles for generating and presenting automated formative feedback on code quality using software metrics
Software Engineering Education and Training
Eddy van den Aker Zuyd University of Applied Science, Ebrahim Rahimi Open University, the Netherlands
12:00
7m
Talk
Automatic Specialization of Third-Party Java Dependencies
Journal-first Papers
César Soto-Valero KTH, Deepika Tiwari KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Tim Toady Programming Republic of Perl, Benoit Baudry KTH
12:07
7m
Talk
Discovering Reusable Functional Features in Legacy Object-Oriented Systems
Journal-first Papers
Hafedh Mili Université du Québec à Montréal, Imen Benzarti École de technologie supérieure, Amel Elkharraz Collège de Bois-de-Boulogne, Ghizlane El Boussaidi École de Technologie Supérieure, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc Concordia University and Polytechnique Montréal, Petko Valchev Université du Québec à Montréal