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S.H. Edwards, Z. Shams, M. Cogswell, and R.C. Senkbeil. Running students’ software tests against each others’ code: New life for an old “gimmick.” In Proceedings of the 43rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE ’12), ACM, New York, NY, 2012, pp. 221-226.
Tags: testing all-pairs gimmick automated assessment bytecode transformation cs education design reflection test coverage test-driven development TDD test-first coding verification Web-CAT SIGCSE
A. Allevato and S.H. Edwards. RoboLIFT: Engaging CS2 students with testable, automatically evaluated Android applications. In Proceedings of the 43rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE ’12), ACM, New York, NY, 2012, pp. 547-552.
Tags: RoboLIFT LIFT CS2 testing Android cs education design GUI Java JUnit mobile development smartphone tablet TDD test-driven development test-first coding Web-CAT SIGCSE
S.H. Edwards, G. Back, and M. Woods. Experiences evaluating student attitudes in an introductory programming course. In Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering, CSREA Press, 2011, pp. 477–482.
Tags: attitudes survey measurement perceptions opinions anxiety enthusiasm Computer Attitudes Survey CS1 cs education CloudSpace
M. Woods and S.H. Edwards. Improving exception messages with ExceptionDoctor. In Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering, CSREA Press, 2011, pp. 466–471.
Tags: exceptions exception messages ExceptionDoctor assignment human factors Java run-time error exception handler explanation diagnosis debugging Backstop cs education testing diagnostics object-oriented errors stack trace
J. Snyder, S.H. Edwards, and M.A. Pérez-Quiñones. LIFT: taking GUI unit testing to new heights. In Proceedings of the 42nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE ’11), ACM, New York, NY, 2011, pp. 643–648.
Tags: LIFT GUI unit testing cs education Web-CAT design Swing testing Java Java Task Force JTF JUnit objectdraw assignment SIGCSE
C.A. Shaffer, M. Akbar, A.J.D. Alon, M. Stewart, and S.H. Edwards. Getting algorithm visualizations into the classroom. In Proceedings of the 42nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE ’11), ACM, New York, NY, 2011, pp. 129–134.
Tags: algorithm visualization active learning algorithm animation cs education data structures tutorial on-line community algoviz SIGCSE
S. Turner, M.A. Pérez-Quiñones, S.H. Edwards, and J. Chase. Student attitudes and motivation for peer review in CS2. In Proceedings of the 42nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE ’11), ACM, New York, NY, 2011, pp. 347–352.
Tags: attitudes motivation peer review CS2 cs education code review design engagement human factors SIGCSE
C.A. Shaffer, M.L. Cooper, A.J.D. Alon, M. Akbar, M. Stewart, S. Ponce, and S.H. Edwards. Algorithm visualization: The state of the field. ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 10(3), Article 9 (August 2010), 22 pp.
Tags: algorithm visualization algorithm animation algoviz community cs education data structure design FOSS ACM TOCE
A. Allevato and S.H. Edwards. Discovering patterns in student activity on programming assignments. In Proceedings of 2010 ASEE Southeastern Section Annual Conference and Meeting, April 18-20, 2010.
Tags: patterns activity assignments cs education data mining Web-CAT
J.P. Van Metre and S.H. Edwards. Source code plagiarism and the honor court. In Proceedings of 2010 ASEE Southeastern Section Annual Conference and Meeting, April 18-20, 2010.
Tags: plagiarism honor court assignments cheating cs education
K. Buffardi, D. Churbanau, R.K.N. Jayaraman, and S.H. Edwards. CoPractice: An adaptive and versatile practice tool. In Proceedings of 2010 ASEE Southeastern Section Annual Conference and Meeting, April 18-20, 2010.
Tags: CoPractice CodeWorkout practice feedback auto-grading drill-and-practice multiple choice social adaptive cs education
S. Turner, M.A. Pérez-Quiñones, S. Edwards, and J. Chase. Peer review in CS2: conceptual learning. In Proceedings of the 41st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, ACM, New York, NY, 2010, pp. 331–335.
Tags: peer review CS2 cs education design human factors object-oriented code review SIGCSE
E.A. Fox, Y. Chen, M. Akbar, C.A. Shaffer, S.H. Edwards, P. Brusilovsky, D. Garcia, L. Delcambre, F. Decker, D. Archer, R. Furuta, F. Shipman, S. Carpenter, and L. Cassel. Ensemble PDP-8: Eight principles for distributed portals. In Proceedings of the 10th Annual Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL ’10), ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2010, pp. 341–344.
Tags: Ensemble portal design digital library human factors ontology standardization cs education
F.M. Shipman, L. Cassel, E. Fox, R. Furuta, L. Delcambre, P. Brusilovsky, B.S. Car- penter, G. Hislop, S. Edwards, and D.D. Garcia. Ensemble: A distributed portal for the distributed community of computing education. In Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL’10), M. Lalmas, J. Jose, A. Rauber, F. Sebastiani, and I. Frommholz (Eds.). Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010, pp. 506–509.
Tags: Ensemble portal community cs education digital library
S.H. Edwards, J. Börstler, L.N. Cassel, M.S. Hall, and J. Hollingsworth. Developing a common format for sharing programming assignments. SIGCSE Bulletin, 40(4):167– 182, Nov. 2008.
Tags: format sharing assignments Web-CAT auto-grading cs education interchange reuse standardization ITiCSE
Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones, Stephen Edwards, Edward A. Fox, Manas Tungare, and Lillian Cassel. Using Web 2.0 technologies in your computer science classes. Workshop at the 39th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. Portland, OR, USA, March 12-15, 2008.
Tags: web design social networking ZK AJAX CS1 cs education SIGCSE
Clifford A. Shaffer and Stephen H. Edwards. Algorithm visualization. Birds-of-a-feather session at the 39th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. Portland, OR, USA, March 12-15, 2008.
Tags: algorithm visualization data structures algorithm animation algoviz cs education SIGCSE
Anthony Allevato and Stephen Edwards. Dereferee: Instrumenting C++ pointers with meaningful runtime diagnostics. Poster presented at the 39th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. Portland, OR, USA, March 12-15, 2008.
Tags: dereferee C++pointers runtime diagnostics assertion checking memory management heap corruption dangling reference memory leak wrappers checked pointer Web-CAT Eclipse Visual Studio IDE cs education SIGCSE
Clifford A. Shaffer, Mayank Agarwal, Arpit Kumar, and Stephen H. Edwards. Going beyond algorithm visualization to algorithm exploration. Poster presented at the 39th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. Portland, OR, USA, March 12-15, 2008.
Tags: algorithm visualization algorithm exploration algoviz cs education SIGCSE
Ricardo Quintana-Castillo, Stephen Edwards, and Manuel Pérez-Quiñones. CATspace: Sharing, discovering, and improving laboratory materials through a social network. Poster presented at the 39th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. Portland, OR, USA, March 12-15, 2008.
Tags: CATSpace sharing labs social network assignments archive repository Web-CAT cs education SIGCSE
Stephen H. Edwards and Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones. Web-CAT user group. Birds-of-a-feather session at the 39th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. Portland, OR, USA, March 12-15, 2008.
Tags: Web-CAT auto-grading test-driven development TDD test-first coding cs education SIGCSE
Scott A. Turner, Ricardo Quintana-Castillo, Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones, and Stephen H. Edwards. Misunderstandings about object-oriented design: experiences using code reviews. In Proceedings of the 39^th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. ACM Press, New York, NY, 2008, pp. 97-101.
Tags: misunderstanding object-oriented design code review code reading object-oriented cs education SIGCSE
Matthew Thornton, Stephen H. Edwards, Roy P. Tan, and Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones. Supporting student-written tests of GUI programs. In Proceedings of the 39^th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. ACM Press, New York, NY, 2008, pp. 537-541.
Tags: testing GUI Web-CAT auto-grading test-driven development TDD test-first coding JUnit unit testing objectdraw Java cs education SIGCSE
Stephen H. Edwards. Bes t practices for on-line delivery. Presented at the 7^th Workshop on Teaching Software Testing, Melbourne, FL, January 18-20, 2008.
Tags: on-line distance learning cs education design
Stephen H. Edwards. Lessons learned using automated grading tools to teach software testing. Presented at the 7^th Workshop on Teaching Software Testing, Melbourne, FL, January 18-20, 2008.
Tags: auto-grading testing Web-CAT test-driven development TDD test-first coding cs education
Matthew Thornton, Stephen H. Edwards, and Roy P. Tan. Helping students test programs that have graphical user interfaces. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Education and Information Systems: Technologies and Applications (EISTA’07), July, 2007.
Tags: testing GUI cs education test-driven development TDD test-first coding objectdraw JUnit Web-CAT
Stephen H. Edwards and Vinh Ly. Mining the data in programming assignments for educational research. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Education and Information Systems: Technologies and Applications (EISTA’07), July, 2007.
Tags: data mining cs education auto-grading Web-CAT CxxTest
Stephen H. Edwards. Automatically grading programming assignments with Web-CAT. Workshop at the 38^th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, March 2007.
Tags: auto-grading assignments Web-CAT JUnit BlueJ Eclipse Java object-oriented unit testing framework cs education test-driven development TDD test-first coding SIGCSE
Clifford A. Shaffer, Matthew Cooper, and Stephen H. Edwards. Algorithm visualization: A report on the state of the field. In Proceedings of the 38^th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. ACM Press, New York, NY, 2007, pp. 150-154.
Tags: algorithm visualization data structures algorithm animation algoviz cs education SIGCSE
Stephen H. Edwards and Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones. Experiences using test-driven development with an automated grader. Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, 22(3): 44-50, January 2007.
Tags: test-driven development TDD auto-grading Web-CAT test-first coding testing cs education
Scott A. Turner, Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones, and Stephen H. Edwards. Effect of interface style in peer review comments for UML designs. Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, 22(3): 214-220, January 2007.
Tags: peer review UML design object-oriented tablet PC cs education human factors
Hussein Vastani, Stephen H. Edwards, and Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones. Supporting on-line direct markup and evaluation of students’ projects. Computers in Education Journal, 16(3):88-99, July-Sept. 2006.
Tags: on-line markup feedback auto-grading cs education Web-CAT
Stephen H. Edwards, Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones, Matthew Phillips, and Johnny RajKumar. Graphing performance on programming assignments to improve student understanding. In Proceedings of the 9th iNEER International Conference on Engineering Education, 2006.
Tags: cs education auto-grading graph visualization course management system Web-CAT Moodle
William Humphries, Justin Gawrilow, Scott Turner, Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones, and Stephen H. Edwards. Helping students visualize their grade performance. In Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, ASEE, 2006, pp. 2006-1164.
Tags: graph visualization course management system self-assessment tracking monitoring progress Moodle ASEE
Scott Turner, Kibum Kim, Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones, and Stephen H. Edwards. Note taking and the tablet PC. Presented at the First Workshop on the Impact of Pen-based Technology on Education, West Lafayette, Indiana, April 6-7, 2006, 5 pp.
Tags: Note taking tablet PC pen-based input cs education WIPTE
Stephen H. Edwards. Using industrial tools to test and grade Resolve/C++ programs. In Proceedings of the Resolve Workshop 2006, Technical Report #06-10, Dept. of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, April 2006, pp. 6-12.
Tags: Resolve/C++assertion checking testing cs education CS1 CS2 CxxTest Eclipse JUnit unit testing framework test-driven development test-first coding IDE Web-CAT auto-grading RESOLVE
Rahul Agarwal, Stephen H. Edwards, and Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones. Designing an adaptive learning module to teach software testing. In Proceedings of the 37^th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (Houston, Texas, USA, March 03 - 05, 2006). ACM Press, New York, NY, pp. 259-263.
Tags: learning module cs education NetCoach adaptive hypertext on-line self-paced SIGCSE
Stephen H. Edwards and William Pugh. Toward a common automated grading platform. Birds-of-a-Feather session at the 37^th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, March 2, 2006.
Tags: auto-grading Web-CAT Marmoset cs education SIGCSE
Stephen H. Edwards. Adding software testing to programming assignments. Workshop at the 37^th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, March 2006.
Tags: testing assignments JUnit BlueJ Eclipse Java object-oriented unit testing framework cs education Web-CAT test-driven development TDD test-first coding auto-grading SIGCSE
Stephen H. Edwards. Programming assignment ideas from CS 1705. Poster presented at the First BlueJ Day, held in conjunction with the 37^th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, March 1, 2006.
Tags: assignment Java CS1 Karel J Robot Web-CAT BlueJ
Stephen H. Edwards. Experiences using BlueJ’s submitter with an automated grader. Invited talk in the User Experiences session, presented at the First BlueJ Day, held in conjunction with the 37^th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, March 1, 2006.
Tags: BlueJ auto-grading CS1 Web-CAT test-first coding test-driven development TDD
Aaron Powell, Scott Turner, Manas Tungare, Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones, and Stephen H. Edwards.. An online peer review system. In Eastern Educational Research Association 2006 Annual Conference</a>, Hilton Head, SC, Feb. 22-25, 2006.
Tags: on-line peer review Moodle
Aaron Powell, Scott Turner, Manas Tungare, Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones, and Stephen H. Edwards.. An online teacher peer review system. In C. Crawford et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education International Conference 2006</a>, AACE, Chesapeake, VA, 2006, pp. 126-133.
Tags: on-line peer review Moodle
Scott A. Turner, Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones, and Stephen H. Edwards. minimUML: A minimalist approach to UML diagramming for early computer science education. Journal of Educational Resources in Computing, 5(4): 1-28, December 2005.
Tags: minimUML UML cs education design human factors UML diagramming ACM TOCE
Anthony Allowatt and Stephen H. Edwards. IDE support for test-driven development and automated grading in both Java and C++. In Proceedings of the 2005 OOPSLA Workshop on Eclipse Technology Exchange (San Diego, California, October 16 - 17, 2005). ACM Press, New York, NY, pp. 100-104.
Tags: IDE test-driven development TDD test-first coding auto-grading plug-in Eclipse Java C++OOPSLA Web-CAT
Anthony Allowatt and Stephen H. Edwards. IDE support for test-driven development and automated grading in both Java and C++. Poster presented at the eTX poster session of OOPSLA’05: the 20th Annual ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications, October 2005.
Tags: IDE test-driven development TDD test-first coding auto-grading plug-in Eclipse Java C++OOPSLA Web-CAT
Stephen H. Edwards. Adding software testing to programming assignments. Tutorial at the 20th Annual ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications, October 2005.
Tags: testing assignments JUnit BlueJ Eclipse Java object-oriented unit testing framework cs education Web-CAT test-driven development TDD test-first coding auto-grading OOPSLA
Hussein Vastani, Stephen H. Edwards, and Manuel Pérez-Quiñones. Supporting on-line direct markup and evaluation of students’ projects. In Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, ASEE, 2005, pp. 13595-13608.
Tags: on-line markup feedback auto-grading cs education Web-CAT ASEE
Stephen H. Edwards. Using software testing to improve programming assignments and grading. Workshop at the 36th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, February 2005.
Tags: testing assignments JUnit BlueJ Eclipse Java object-oriented unit testing framework cs education Web-CAT test-driven development TDD test-first coding auto-grading SIGCSE
Stephen H. Edwards and Diane M. Hodge. Lessons learned by comparing on-line education strategies across disciplines. Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, 2005.
Tags: on-line interdisciplinary cs education
Stephen H. Edwards. Practical ways to add software testing to programming assignments. In Proceedings of the 20th Annual CCSC Eastern Conference, CCSC, 2005, pp. 168-170. Tutorial presented at the conferece, October 14-16, 2004, Baltimore, MD.
Tags: testing assignments JUnit BlueJ Eclipse Java object-oriented unit testing framework cs education Web-CAT test-driven development TDD test-first coding auto-grading CCSC
Roy P. Tan and Stephen H. Edwards. Experiences evaluating the effectiveness of JML-JUnit testing. SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, 29(5): 1-4, Sep. 2004. Section: Proceedings of the Workshop on Empirical Research in Software Testing.
Tags: JML JUnit testing components BIT built-in test
Roy P. Tan and Stephen H. Edwards. Designing a programming language to provide automated self-testing for formally specified software components. In SAVCBS 2004: Specification and Verification of Component Based Systems, Technical Report #04-09, Dept. of Computer Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, August 2004, pp. 130-133.
Tags: design programming language components Sulu testing assertion checking Java object-oriented contract dbC BIT built-in test self-test formal specification run-time verification SAVCBS
Stephen H. Edwards. Teaching software testing on-line. Invited presentation and poster in the NSF CCLI Showcase at the 35th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, March 4, 2004.
Tags: testing on-line adaptive hypertext cs education NetCoach Web-CAT SIGCSE
Paulette J. Goodman and Stephen H. Edwards. Developing online learning modules using the adaptive hypertext features of NetCoach. Poster presented at the 35^th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2004.
Tags: online learning modules adaptive hypertext NetCoach cs education testing SIGCSE
Stephen H. Edwards. Using software testing to move students from trial-and-error to reflection-in-action. In Proceedings of the 35^th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, ACM, 2004, pp. 26-30.
Tags: testing trial-and-error reflection-in-action test-driven development TDD test-first coding auto-grading Web-CAT cs education SIGCSE
Stephen H. Edwards and N. Dwight Barnette. Experiences Using Tablet PCs in a Programming Laboratory. In Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Information Technology Education, ACM Press, New York, NY, 2004, p. 160-164.
Tags: tablet PCs lab cs education SIGITE
Stephen H. Edwards. Teaching software testing: Automatic grading meets test-first coding. In Addendum to the 2003 Proceedings of the Conference on Object-oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications, ACM, 2003, pp. 318-319.
Tags: testing cs education auto-grading test-first coding test-driven development TDD Web-CAT poster OOPSLA
Stephen H. Edwards. Rethinking computer science education from a test-first perspective. In Addendum to the 2003 Proceedings of the Conference on Object-oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (Educator’s Symposium), ACM, 2003, pp. 148-155.
Tags: cs education test-first coding test-driven development TDD test-first coding testing Web-CAT auto-grading OOPSLA
Stephen H. Edwards. Improving student performance by evaluating how well students test their own programs. Journal of Educational Resources in Computing, 3(3):1-24, September 2003.
Tags: student performance testing test-driven development TDD test-first coding cs education Web-CAT auto-grading
Stephen H. Edwards. Using test-driven development in the classroom: Providing students with concrete feedback on performance. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Education and Information Systems: Technologies and Applications (EISTA’03), International Institute of Informatics and Systemics, 2003, pp. 421–426.
Tags: test-driven development TDD test-first coding cs education feedback Web-CAT auto-grading
Stephen H. Edwards and Diane M. Hodge. Lessons learned by comparing on-line education strategies across disciplines. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Education and Information Systems: Technologies and Applications (EISTA’03), International Institute of Informatics and Systemics, 2003, pp. 415–420.
Tags: on-line cs education interdisciplinary social work
Stephen H. Edwards. Automatically assessing assignments that use test-driven development. Presented at the 2003 Workshop on Teaching Software Testing, February, 2003.
Tags: auto-grading test-driven development TDD test-first coding Web-CAT cs education
Stephen H. Edwards. A framework for practical, automated black-box testing of component-based software. Software Testing, Verification and Reliability, 11(2):97-111, June, 2001.
Tags: framework black-box testing components software engineering built-in test self-test BIT object-oriented
Stephen H. Edwards. Black-box testing using flowgraphs: An experimental assessment of effectiveness and automation potential. Software Testing, Verification and Reliability, 10(4):249–262, December, 2000.
Tags: black-box testing flowgraphs software engineering built-in test self-test BIT object-oriented
Stephen H. Edwards. Can quality graduate software engineering courses really be delivered asynchronously on-line?. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Software Engineering, ACM CS Press, 2000, pp. 676–679.
Tags: quality graduate software engineering asynchronous on-line cs education ICSE
Stephen H. Edwards and Clifford A. Shaffer. An analysis of a course-oriented electronic mailing list. Computer Science Education, 9(1):8-22, April, 1999.
Tags: online mailing list cs education
Timothy J. Long, Bruce W. Weide, Paolo Bucci, David S. Gibson, Joseph E. Hollingsworth, Murali Sitaraman, and Stephen H. Edwards. Providing intellectual focus to CS1/CS2. In Proceedings of the 29th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, ACM Press, 1998, pp. 252-256.
Tags: CS1 CS2 cs education SIGCSE
Tim Long, Bruce Weide, Paolo Bucci, David Gibson, Joseph Hollingsworth, Murali Sitaraman, and Stephen Edwards. Providing Intellectual Focus to CS1/CS2. Technical report OSU-CISRC-9/97-TR42, Dept. of Computer and Information Science, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, September, 1997.
Tags: CS1 CS2 cs education

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