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Foundations for a New Perspective of Understanding Programming (Dagstuhl Seminar 22402)

Authors: Madeline Endres, André Brechmann, Bonita Sharif, Westley Weimer, and Janet Siegmund

Published in: Dagstuhl Reports, Volume 12, Issue 10 (2023)

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Software is created by people who think, feel, and express themselves to one another and their computers. For a long time, researchers have investigated how people read and write code on their computers and talk about code with one another. This way, researchers identified skills, education, and practices necessary to acquire expertise and perform software development duties. While these investigations are valuable, we have yet to devise and validate a scientific theory of program comprehension, which would be an important step in designing support for developers that is tailored to their cognitive needs. To succeed, we need techniques to shed more light on how programmers think. To this end, we need to look beyond computer science research. Specifically, in the field of psychology and cognitive neuroscience, considerable progress has been made in building theories of cognitive processes. Important enabling technologies include eye tracking, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), electroencephalography (EEG), and functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). These methods have revolutionized the understanding of cognitive processes and are routinely used in non-computing disciplines. Such techniques have the potential to also modernize classic approaches to program comprehension research by informing new experimental designs. However, the use of such technologies to study program comprehension is recent, and many of the challenges of this interdisciplinary field remain unexplored. This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 22402, "Foundations for a New Perspective of Understanding Programming", which explores these challenges. In total, 23 on-site participants attended the seminar along with two virtual keynote speakers. Participants engaged in intensive collaboration, including discussing past and current research, identifying gaps in the literature, and proposing future directions for improving the state of the art in program comprehension research.

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Madeline Endres, André Brechmann, Bonita Sharif, Westley Weimer, and Janet Siegmund. Foundations for a New Perspective of Understanding Programming (Dagstuhl Seminar 22402). In Dagstuhl Reports, Volume 12, Issue 10, pp. 61-83, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)

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@Article{endres_et_al:DagRep.12.10.61,
  author =	{Endres, Madeline and Brechmann, Andr\'{e} and Sharif, Bonita and Weimer, Westley and Siegmund, Janet},
  title =	{{Foundations for a New Perspective of Understanding Programming (Dagstuhl Seminar 22402)}},
  pages =	{61--83},
  journal =	{Dagstuhl Reports},
  ISSN =	{2192-5283},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{12},
  number =	{10},
  editor =	{Endres, Madeline and Brechmann, Andr\'{e} and Sharif, Bonita and Weimer, Westley and Siegmund, Janet},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagRep.12.10.61},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-178209},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagRep.12.10.61},
  annote =	{Keywords: Programming Methodology, Programming Education, Program Comprehension, Neuro-imaging, Eye Tracking, Human Cognition, Human Computer Interaction, Software Engineering, Human Factors}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/DagRep.1.2.16

Self-Repairing Programs (Dagstuhl Seminar 11062)

Authors: Mauro Pezzè, Martin C. Rinard, Westley Weimer, and Andreas Zeller

Published in: Dagstuhl Reports, Volume 1, Issue 2 (2011)

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Dagstuhl seminar 11062 ``Self-Repairing Programs'' included 23 participants and organizers from research and industrial communities. Self-Repairing Programs are a new and emerging area, and many participants reported that they initially felt their first research home to be in another area, such as testing, program synthesis, debugging, self-healing systems, or security. Over the course of the seminar, the participants found common ground in discussions of concerns, challenges, and the state of the art.

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Mauro Pezzè, Martin C. Rinard, Westley Weimer, and Andreas Zeller. Self-Repairing Programs (Dagstuhl Seminar 11062). In Dagstuhl Reports, Volume 1, Issue 2, pp. 16-29, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2011)

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@Article{pezze_et_al:DagRep.1.2.16,
  author =	{Pezz\`{e}, Mauro and Rinard, Martin C. and Weimer, Westley and Zeller, Andreas},
  title =	{{Self-Repairing Programs (Dagstuhl Seminar 11062)}},
  pages =	{16--29},
  journal =	{Dagstuhl Reports},
  ISSN =	{2192-5283},
  year =	{2011},
  volume =	{1},
  number =	{2},
  editor =	{Pezz\`{e}, Mauro and Rinard, Martin C. and Weimer, Westley and Zeller, Andreas},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagRep.1.2.16},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-31525},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagRep.1.2.16},
  annote =	{Keywords: Automated program repair, contract, debugging, fault, patch, self-healing}
}

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