CCRI: Planning: Collaborative Research: A Platform for Conducting Software Engineering User Studies

CCRI：规划：协同研究：进行软件工程用户研究的平台

• 批准号: 2016586
• 负责人: Joshua Sunshine
• 金额: $ 4.2万
• 依托单位: Carnegie-Mellon University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-01 至 2023-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2016586&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CCRI; Planning; Collaborative; Research; Platform

A key goal of software engineering and programming languages research is to create new environments, tools, languages, and techniques through which software engineers create software. Evaluating claims with direct evidence about the expected value of a tool or language for developers requires conducting user studies with developers. Yet researchers looking to conduct these studies face a number of significant barriers, including recruiting participants, administering tasks, and reusing materials. As a result, conducting user studies of software engineering tools and programming languages remains infrequent. Reducing these barriers may increase the frequency of these studies, increasing the ability of tools and languages to support developers and enabling developers to be more productive and effective in their work.This project encompasses planning activities to construct a shared community infrastructure for conducting user studies of developers. Planning activities will be conducted to gather community input to better understand the nature of the problem and obtain feedback on ways in which a future community infrastructure for conducting studies might reduce the barriers researchers face. Community feedback will be obtained on potential configurable components addressing key barriers. A survey and interviews of software engineering and programming languages researchers will be conducted to understand the barriers researchers face and how infrastructure might reduce these barriers. A workshop will facilitate exchange of best practices, and a working group will explore the detailed design of the infrastructure with researchers experienced in user studies. Finally, a summative survey will assess the ability of potential infrastructure to support the studies researchers conduct.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

软件工程和编程语言研究的一个关键目标是创建新的环境、工具、语言和技术，软件工程师可以通过这些环境、工具、语言和技术来创建软件。使用有关工具或语言对开发人员的预期价值的直接证据来评估声明需要与开发人员进行用户研究。然而，想要进行这些研究的研究人员面临着许多重大障碍，包括招募参与者、管理任务和重复使用材料。因此，对软件工程工具和编程语言进行用户研究仍然很少。减少这些障碍可能会增加这些研究的频率，提高工具和语言支持开发人员的能力，并使开发人员的工作更加高效和高效。该项目包括规划活动，以构建一个共享社区基础设施，以进行用户研究开发商。将开展规划活动，收集社区意见，以更好地了解问题的本质，并获得有关未来进行研究的社区基础设施可能减少研究人员面临的障碍的反馈。将获得有关解决关键障碍的潜在可配置组件的社区反馈。我们将对软件工程和编程语言研究人员进行调查和采访，以了解研究人员面临的障碍以及基础设施如何减少这些障碍。研讨会将促进最佳实践的交流，工作组将与具有用户研究经验的研究人员一起探索基础设施的详细设计。最后，总结性调查将评估潜在基础设施支持研究人员进行的研究的能力。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。