David C. Shepherd

According to our database, David C. Shepherd authored at least 73 papers between 2003 and 2024.

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2024

Dear researchers - a new column sharing the perspective of software practitioners.

Paris Avgeriou, David C. Shepherd

J. Syst. Softw., 2024

Blocks? Graphs? Why Not Both? Designing and Evaluating a Hybrid Programming Environment for End-users.

Nico Ritschel, Felipe Fronchetti, Reid Holmes, Ronald Garcia, David C. Shepherd

Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE/ACM 46th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings, 2024

Block-based Programming for Two-Armed Robots: A Comparative Study.

Felipe Fronchetti, Nico Ritschel, Logan Schorr, Chandler Barfield, Gabriella Chang, Rodrigo O. Spínola, Reid Holmes, David C. Shepherd

Proceedings of the 46th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, 2024

2023

Training industrial end-user programmers with interactive tutorials.

Nico Ritschel, Anand Ashok Sawant, David Weintrop, Reid Holmes, Alberto Bacchelli, Ronald Garcia, Chandrika K. R., Avijit Mandal, Patrick Francis, David C. Shepherd

Softw. Pract. Exp., March, 2023

Introduction to the Special Issue on Software-Intensive Autonomous Systems: Methods and applications.

Nesrine Khabou, Ismael Bouassida Rodriguez, Khalil Drira, Paris Avgeriou, David C. Shepherd, Wing-Kwong Chan, Raffaela Mirandola

J. Syst. Softw., 2023

Ready Worker One? High-Res VR for the Home Office.

Anastasia Ruvimova, Felipe Fronchetti, Boden A Kahn, Luiz Henrique Susin, Zekeya Hurley, Thomas Fritz, Mark Hancock, David C. Shepherd

Proceedings of the 29th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, 2023

Do CONTRIBUTING Files Provide Information about OSS Newcomers' Onboarding Barriers?

Felipe Fronchetti, David C. Shepherd, Igor Wiese, Christoph Treude, Marco Aurélio Gerosa, Igor Steinmacher

Proceedings of the 31st ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2023

Attracting Adults to Computer Programming via Hip Hop.

Douglas Lusa Krug, Chrystalla Mouza, W. Monty Jones, Taylor Barnett, David C. Shepherd

Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Volume 1, 2023

Using Domain-Specific, Immediate Feedback to Support Students Learning Computer Programming to Make Music.

Douglas Lusa Krug, Yifan Zhang, Chrystalla Mouza, Taylor Barnett, Lori L. Pollock, David C. Shepherd

Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V. 1, 2023

2022

Language impact on productivity for industrial end users: A case study from Programmable Logic Controllers.

Felipe Fronchetti, Nico Ritschel, Reid Holmes, Linxi Li, Mauricio Soto, Raoul Jetley, Igor Wiese, David C. Shepherd

J. Comput. Lang., 2022

Comparing Block-Based Programming Models for Two-Armed Robots.

Nico Ritschel, Vladimir Kovalenko, Reid Holmes, Ronald Garcia, David C. Shepherd

IEEE Trans. Software Eng., 2022

Can guided decomposition help end-users write larger block-based programs? a mobile robot experiment.

Nico Ritschel, Felipe Fronchetti, Reid Holmes, Ronald Garcia, David C. Shepherd

Proc. ACM Program. Lang., 2022

Theories of Programming (Dagstuhl Seminar 22231).

Thomas D. LaToza, Amy J. Ko, David C. Shepherd, Dag I. K. Sjøberg, Benjamin Xie

Dagstuhl Reports, 2022

Shortcomings of Class-level Documentation: A Survey.

Jianwei Wu, Jining Yu, David C. Shepherd, James Clause

CoRR, 2022

A Case Study of Middle Schoolers' Use of Computational Thinking Concepts and Practices during Coded Music Composition.

Yifan Zhang, Douglas Lusa Krug, Chrystalla Mouza, David C. Shepherd, Lori L. Pollock

Proceedings of the ITiCSE 2022: Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, Dublin, Ireland, July 8, 2022

Enabling End-Users to Implement Larger Block-Based Programs.

Nico Ritschel, Felipe Fronchetti, Reid Holmes, Ronald Garcia, David C. Shepherd

Proceedings of the 44th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings, 2022

2021

What Predicts Software Developers' Productivity?

Emerson R. Murphy-Hill, Ciera Jaspan, Caitlin Sadowski, David C. Shepherd, Michael Phillips, Collin Winter, Andrea Knight, Edward K. Smith, Matthew Jorde

IEEE Trans. Software Eng., 2021

Observing and predicting knowledge worker stress, focus and awakeness in the wild.

Mauricio Soto, Chris Satterfield, Thomas Fritz, Gail C. Murphy, David C. Shepherd, Nicholas A. Kraft

Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud., 2021

Code Beats: A Virtual Camp for Middle Schoolers Coding Hip Hop.

Douglas Lusa Krug, Edtwuan Bowman, Taylor Barnett, Lori L. Pollock, David C. Shepherd

Proceedings of the SIGCSE '21: The 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2021

2020

Successful Engagement of Practitioners and Software Engineering Researchers: Evidence From 26 International Industry-Academia Collaborative Projects.

Vahid Garousi, David C. Shepherd, Kadir Herkiloglu

IEEE Softw., 2020

Guest editorial: special section on software analysis, evolution, and reengineering.

Massimiliano Di Penta, David C. Shepherd

Empir. Softw. Eng., 2020

Software documentation: the practitioners' perspective.

Emad Aghajani, Csaba Nagy, Mario Linares-Vásquez, Laura Moreno, Gabriele Bavota, Michele Lanza, David C. Shepherd

Proceedings of the ICSE '20: 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering, Seoul, South Korea, 27 June, 2020

"Transport Me Away": Fostering Flow in Open Offices through Virtual Reality.

Anastasia Ruvimova, Junhyeok Kim, Thomas Fritz, Mark Hancock, David C. Shepherd

Proceedings of the CHI '20: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2020

2019

Characterizing industry-academia collaborations in software engineering: evidence from 101 projects.

Vahid Garousi, Dietmar Pfahl, João M. Fernandes, Michael Felderer, Mika V. Mäntylä, David C. Shepherd, Andrea Arcuri, Ahmet Coskunçay, Bedir Tekinerdogan

Empir. Softw. Eng., 2019

Modeling hierarchical usage context for software exceptions based on interaction data.

Hui Chen, Kostadin Damevski, David C. Shepherd, Nicholas A. Kraft

Autom. Softw. Eng., 2019

Visualizing the "hidden" variables in robot programs.

David C. Shepherd, Nicholas A. Kraft, Patrick Francis

Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Robotics Software Engineering, 2019

Novice-friendly multi-armed robotics programming.

Nico Ritschel, Reid Holmes, Ronald Garcia, David C. Shepherd

Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Robotics Software Engineering, 2019

Reducing Interruptions at Work with FlowLight.

Manuela Züger, André N. Meyer, Thomas Fritz, David C. Shepherd

Proceedings of the Rethinking Productivity in Software Engineering., 2019

2018

Predicting Future Developer Behavior in the IDE Using Topic Models.

Kostadin Damevski, Hui Chen, David C. Shepherd, Nicholas A. Kraft, Lori L. Pollock

IEEE Trans. Software Eng., 2018

Detecting Plagiarism Based on the Creation Process.

Johannes Schneider, Abraham Bernstein, Jan vom Brocke, Kostadin Damevski, David C. Shepherd

IEEE Trans. Learn. Technol., 2018

The cost-benefit analysis of usage data in robotstudio (keynote).

David C. Shepherd

Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE Workshop on Mining and Analyzing Interaction Histories, 2018

[Engineering Paper] An IDE for Easy Programming of Simple Robotics Tasks.

David C. Shepherd, Patrick Francis, David Weintrop, Diana Franklin, Boyang Li, Afsoon Afzal

Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, 2018

Evaluating CoBlox: A Comparative Study of Robotics Programming Environments for Adult Novices.

David Weintrop, Afsoon Afzal, Jean Salac, Patrick Francis, Boyang Li, David C. Shepherd, Diana Franklin

Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2018

2017

Design and evaluation of a multi-recommendation system for local code search.

Xi Ge, David C. Shepherd, Kostadin Damevski, Emerson R. Murphy-Hill

J. Vis. Lang. Comput., 2017

Mining Sequences of Developer Interactions in Visual Studio for Usage Smells.

Kostadin Damevski, David C. Shepherd, Johannes Schneider, Lori L. Pollock

IEEE Trans. Software Eng., 2017

Eye gaze and interaction contexts for change tasks - Observations and potential.

Katja Kevic, Braden Walters, Timothy Shaffer, Bonita Sharif, David C. Shepherd, Thomas Fritz

J. Syst. Softw., 2017

On-demand Developer Documentation.

Martin P. Robillard, Andrian Marcus, Christoph Treude, Gabriele Bavota, Oscar Chaparro, Neil A. Ernst, Marco Aurélio Gerosa, Michael W. Godfrey, Michele Lanza, Mario Linares Vásquez, Gail C. Murphy, Laura Moreno, David C. Shepherd, Edmund Wong

Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution, 2017

Behavior Metrics for Prioritizing Investigations of Exceptions.

Zack Coker, Kostadin Damevski, Claire Le Goues, Nicholas A. Kraft, David C. Shepherd, Lori L. Pollock

Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution, 2017

Reducing Interruptions at Work: A Large-Scale Field Study of FlowLight.

Manuela Züger, Christopher S. Corley, André N. Meyer, Boyang Li, Thomas Fritz, David C. Shepherd, Vinay Augustine, Patrick Francis, Nicholas A. Kraft, Will Snipes

Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2017

2016

Roundtable: Research Opportunities and Challenges for Large-Scale Software Systems.

Xusheng Xiao, Jian-Guang Lou, Shan Lu, David C. Shepherd, Xin Peng, Qianxiang Wang

J. Comput. Sci. Technol., 2016

A field study of how developers locate features in source code.

Kostadin Damevski, David C. Shepherd, Lori L. Pollock

Empir. Softw. Eng., 2016

Detecting Plagiarism based on the Creation Process.

Johannes Schneider, Avi Bernstein, Jan vom Brocke, Kostadin Damevski, David C. Shepherd

CoRR, 2016

Interactive exploration of developer interaction traces using a hidden markov model.

Kostadin Damevski, Hui Chen, David C. Shepherd, Lori L. Pollock

Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, 2016

An empirical study of practitioners' perspectives on green software engineering.

Irene Manotas, Christian Bird, Rui Zhang, David C. Shepherd, Ciera Jaspan, Caitlin Sadowski, Lori L. Pollock, James Clause

Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering, 2016

2015

Supporting Developers in Porting Software via Combined Textual and Structural Analysis of Software Artifacts.

Kostadin Damevski, David C. Shepherd, Nicholas A. Kraft, Lori L. Pollock

CoRR, 2015

Scaling up evaluation of code search tools through developer usage metrics.

Kostadin Damevski, David C. Shepherd, Lori L. Pollock

Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, 2015

Tracing software developers' eyes and interactions for change tasks.

Katja Kevic, Braden M. Walters, Timothy R. Shaffer, Bonita Sharif, David C. Shepherd, Thomas Fritz

Proceedings of the 2015 10th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering, 2015

Understanding the Use of a Bug Tracking System in a Global Software Development Setup.

Dhaval Vyas, Tara Capel, Deven Tank, David C. Shepherd

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Australian Special Interest Group for Computer Human Interaction, 2015

Exploring the use of concern element role information in feature location evaluation.

Emily Hill, David C. Shepherd, Lori L. Pollock

Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Program Comprehension, 2015

How and When to Transfer Software Engineering Research via Extensions.

David C. Shepherd, Kostadin Damevski, Lori L. Pollock

Proceedings of the 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, 2015

A Field Study on Fostering Structural Navigation with Prodet.

Vinay Augustine, Patrick Francis, Xiao Qu, David C. Shepherd, Will Snipes, Christoph Bräunlich, Thomas Fritz

Proceedings of the 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, 2015

A Practical Guide to Analyzing IDE Usage Data.

Will Snipes, Emerson R. Murphy-Hill, Thomas Fritz, Mohsen Vakilian, Kostadin Damevski, Anil R. Nair, David C. Shepherd

Proceedings of the Art and Science of Analyzing Software Data, 2015

2014

How developers use multi-recommendation system in local code search.

Xi Ge, David C. Shepherd, Kostadin Damevski, Emerson R. Murphy-Hill

Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, 2014

Developers' code context models for change tasks.

Thomas Fritz, David C. Shepherd, Katja Kevic, Will Snipes, Christoph Bräunlich

Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering, (FSE-22), Hong Kong, China, November 16, 2014

CoMoGen: An Approach to Locate Relevant Task Context by Combining Search and Navigation.

Katja Kevic, Thomas Fritz, David C. Shepherd

Proceedings of the 30th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution, Victoria, BC, Canada, September 29, 2014

How the Sando search tool recommends queries.

Xi Ge, David C. Shepherd, Kostadin Damevski, Emerson R. Murphy-Hill

Proceedings of the 2014 Software Evolution Week, 2014

A case study of paired interleaving for evaluating code search techniques.

Kostadin Damevski, David C. Shepherd, Lori L. Pollock

Proceedings of the 2014 Software Evolution Week, 2014

Bug Reproduction: A Collaborative Practice Within Software Maintenance Activities.

Dhaval Vyas, Thomas Fritz, David C. Shepherd

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems, 2014

2013

Differentiating Roles of Program Elements in Action-Oriented Concerns.

Emily Hill, David C. Shepherd, Lori L. Pollock, K. Vijay-Shanker

Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, 2013

2012

Sando: an extensible local code search framework.

David C. Shepherd, Kostadin Damevski, Bartosz Ropski, Thomas Fritz

Proceedings of the 20th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE-20), 2012

2011

Natural Language-Based Software Analyses and Tools for Software Maintenance.

Lori L. Pollock, K. Vijay-Shanker, Emily Hill, Giriprasad Sridhara, David C. Shepherd

Proceedings of the Software Engineering - International Summer Schools, 2011

2009

Using activity traces to characterize programming behaviour beyond the lab.

Gail C. Murphy, Petcharat Viriyakattiyaporn, David C. Shepherd

Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension, 2009

2008

Analysing source code: looking for useful verbdirect object pairs in all the right places.

Zachary P. Fry, David C. Shepherd, Emily Hill, Lori L. Pollock, K. Vijay-Shanker

IET Softw., 2008

A sketch of the programmer's coach: making programmers more effective.

David C. Shepherd, Gail C. Murphy

Proceedings of the 2008 International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering, 2008

2007

Case study: supplementing program analysis with natural language analysis to improve a reverse engineering task.

David C. Shepherd, Lori L. Pollock, K. Vijay-Shanker

Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGSOFT Workshop on Program Analysis for Software Tools and Engineering, 2007

Introducing natural language program analysis.

Lori L. Pollock, K. Vijay-Shanker, David C. Shepherd, Emily Hill, Zachary P. Fry, Kishen Maloor

Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGSOFT Workshop on Program Analysis for Software Tools and Engineering, 2007

Using natural language program analysis to locate and understand action-oriented concerns.

David C. Shepherd, Zachary P. Fry, Emily Hill, Lori L. Pollock, K. Vijay-Shanker

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development, 2007

2006

Towards supporting on-demand virtual remodularization using program graphs.

David C. Shepherd, Lori L. Pollock, K. Vijay-Shanker

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development, 2006

2005

Using language clues to discover crosscutting concerns.

David C. Shepherd, Lori L. Pollock, Tom Tourwé

ACM SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes, 2005

Timna: a framework for automatically combining aspect mining analyses.

David C. Shepherd, Jeffrey Palm, Lori L. Pollock, Mark Chu-Carroll

Proceedings of the 20th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2005), 2005

Using AOP to Ease Evolution.

David C. Shepherd, Thomas Roper, Lori L. Pollock

Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, 2005

2004

Design and Evaluation of an Automated Aspect Mining Tool.

David C. Shepherd, Emily Gibson, Lori L. Pollock

Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice, 2004

2003

Testing with Respect to Concerns.

Amie L. Souter, David C. Shepherd, Lori L. Pollock

Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2003), 2003