Thomas D. LaToza

According to our database, Thomas D. LaToza authored at least 75 papers between 2006 and 2025.

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2025

How Developers Choose Debugging Strategies for Challenging Web Application Defects.

Maryam Arab, Jenny T. Liang, Valentina Hong, Thomas D. LaToza

CoRR, January, 2025

Towards Decoding Developer Cognition in the Age of AI Assistants.

Ebtesam Al Haque, Chris Brown, Thomas D. LaToza, Brittany Johnson

CoRR, January, 2025

OurCode: Experiences Transitioning University Research into a Developer Tools Startup.

Consuelo Lopez, Sahar Mehrpour, Austin Z. Henley, Thomas D. LaToza

Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2025

The Evolution of Information Seeking in Software Development: Understanding the Role and Impact of AI Assistants.

Ebtesam Al Haque, Chris Brown, Thomas D. LaToza, Brittany Johnson

Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2025

Advancing HCI with Neuromorphic Technology: Guidelines for Designing User-Friendly Developer Tools for Neuromorphic Development.

Divesh Upreti, Aditi Maheshwari, Taylor Tabb, Ioannis Polykretis, Eric M. Gallo, Kenneth Michael Stewart, Thomas D. LaToza, Andreea Danielescu

Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2025

2024

A Survey of Tool Support for Working with Design Decisions in Code.

Sahar Mehrpour, Thomas D. LaToza

ACM Comput. Surv., February, 2024

Information Seeking Using AI Assistants.

Ebtesam Al Haque, Chris Brown, Thomas D. LaToza, Brittany Johnson

CoRR, 2024

IntelliExplain: Enhancing Interactive Code Generation through Natural Language Explanations for Non-Professional Programmers.

Hao Yan, Thomas D. LaToza, Ziyu Yao

CoRR, 2024

How many pomodoros do professional engineers need to complete a microtask of programming?

Shinobu Saito, Yukako Iimura, Emad Aghayi, Thomas D. LaToza

Proceedings of the 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 2024

2023

What constitutes debugging? An exploratory study of debugging episodes.

Abdulaziz Alaboudi, Thomas D. LaToza

Empir. Softw. Eng., October, 2023

What's (Not) Working in Programmer User Studies?

Matthew C. Davis, Emad Aghayi, Thomas D. LaToza, Xiaoyin Wang, Brad A. Myers, Joshua Sunshine

ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol., September, 2023

Connecting Design to Code.

Thomas D. LaToza

IEEE Softw., 2023

Can static analysis tools find more defects?

Sahar Mehrpour, Thomas D. LaToza

Empir. Softw. Eng., 2023

A controlled experiment on the impact of microtasking on programming.

Emad Aghayi, Thomas D. LaToza

Empir. Softw. Eng., 2023

Foreword.

Thomas D. LaToza, Esther Guerra, Philip J. Guo

Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, 2023

Hypothesizer: A Hypothesis-Based Debugger to Find and Test Debugging Hypotheses.

Abdulaziz Alaboudi, Thomas D. LaToza

Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2023

ChatGPT and Software Testing Education: Promises & Perils.

Sajed Jalil, Suzzana Rafi, Thomas D. LaToza, Kevin Moran, Wing Lam

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation, ICST 2023, 2023

A Qualitative Study on the Implementation Design Decisions of Developers.

Jenny T. Liang, Maryam Arab, Minhyuk Ko, Amy J. Ko, Thomas D. LaToza

Proceedings of the 45th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, 2023

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

Barriers in Front-End Web Development.

David I. Samudio, Thomas D. LaToza

Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, 2022

An Exploratory Study of Sharing Strategic Programming Knowledge.

Maryam Arab, Thomas D. LaToza, Jenny T. Liang, Amy J. Ko

Proceedings of the CHI '22: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New Orleans, LA, USA, 29 April 2022, 2022

2021

Crowdsourced Behavior-Driven Development.

Emad Aghayi, Thomas D. LaToza, Paurav Surendra, Seyedmeysam Abolghasemi

J. Syst. Softw., 2021

An Exploratory Study of Debugging Episodes.

Abdulaziz Alaboudi, Thomas D. LaToza

CoRR, 2021

HowToo: A Platform for Sharing, Finding, and Using Programming Strategies.

Maryam Arab, Jenny T. Liang, Yang Yoo, Amy J. Ko, Thomas D. LaToza

Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, 2021

Edit - Run Behavior in Programming and Debugging.

Abdulaziz Alaboudi, Thomas D. LaToza

Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, 2021

Catalyzing the Agility, Accessibility, and Predictability of the Manufacturing-Entrepreneurship Ecosystem through Design Environments and Markets for Virtual Things.

Alexander Brodsky, Yotam I. Gingold, Thomas D. LaToza, Lap-Fai Yu, Xu Han

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems, 2021

2020

Information Needs: Lessons for Programming Tools.

Thomas D. LaToza

IEEE Softw., 2020

Explicit programming strategies.

Thomas D. LaToza, Maryam Arab, Dastyni Loksa, Amy J. Ko

Empir. Softw. Eng., 2020

An Exploratory Study of Writing and Revising Explicit Programming Strategies.

Maryam Arab, Thomas D. LaToza, Amy J. Ko

CoRR, 2020

Using Hypotheses as a Debugging Aid.

Abdulaziz Alaboudi, Thomas D. LaToza

Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, 2020

Find Unique Usages: Helping Developers Understand Common Usages.

Emad Aghayi, Aaron Massey, Thomas D. LaToza

Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, 2020

Can microtask programming work in industry?

Shinobu Saito, Yukako Iimura, Emad Aghayi, Thomas D. LaToza

Proceedings of the ESEC/FSE '20: 28th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2020

RulePad: interactive authoring of checkable design rules.

Sahar Mehrpour, Thomas D. LaToza, Hamed Sarvari

Proceedings of the ESEC/FSE '20: 28th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2020

2019

Microtask Programming.

Thomas D. LaToza, Arturo Di Lecce, Fabio Ricci, W. Ben Towne, André van der Hoek

IEEE Trans. Software Eng., 2019

User-Interactive Machine Learning Model for Identifying Structural Relationships of Code Features.

Ankit Gupta, Kartik Chugh, Andrea Solis, Thomas D. LaToza

CoRR, 2019

Implementing Microservices through Microtasks.

Emad Aghayi, Thomas D. LaToza, Paurav Surendra, Seyedmeysam Abolghasemi

CoRR, 2019

Active Documentation: Helping Developers Follow Design Decisions.

Sahar Mehrpour, Thomas D. LaToza, Rahul K. Kindi

Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, 2019

Editable AI: Mixed Human-AI Authoring of Code Patterns.

Kartik Chugh, Andrea Y. Solis, Thomas D. LaToza

Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, 2019

An Exploratory Study of Live-Streamed Programming.

Abdulaziz Alaboudi, Thomas D. LaToza

Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, 2019

Teaching Explicit Programming Strategies to Adolescents.

Amy J. Ko, Thomas D. LaToza, Stephen Hull, Ellen A. Ko, William Kwok, Jane Quichocho, Harshitha Akkaraju, Rishin Pandit

Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2019

Crowdsourcing in software engineering: models, motivations, and challenges.

Thomas D. LaToza

Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice, 2019

Supporting software engineering research and education by annotating public videos of developers programming.

Abdulaziz Alaboudi, Thomas D. LaToza

Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering, 2019

Human-Centered Methods to Boost Productivity.

Brad A. Myers, Amy J. Ko, Thomas D. LaToza, YoungSeok Yoon

Proceedings of the Rethinking Productivity in Software Engineering., 2019

2017

Crowdsourcing for Software Engineering.

Klaas-Jan Stol, Thomas D. LaToza, Christian Bird

IEEE Softw., 2017

4th International Workshop on Crowd Sourcing in Software Engineering (CSI-SE 2017).

Thomas D. LaToza, Ke Mao

Proceedings of the 4th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on CrowdSourcing in Software Engineering, 2017

Advancing Open Science with Version Control and Blockchains.

Jonathan Bell, Thomas D. LaToza, Foteini Baldimtsi, Angelos Stavrou

Proceedings of the 12th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Software Engineering for Science, 2017

2016

Crowdsourcing in Software Engineering: Models, Motivations, and Challenges.

Thomas D. LaToza, André van der Hoek

IEEE Softw., 2016

Programmers Are Users Too: Human-Centered Methods for Improving Programming Tools.

Brad A. Myers, Amy J. Ko, Thomas D. LaToza, YoungSeok Yoon

Computer, 2016

2015

How Software Designers Interact with Sketches at the Whiteboard.

Nicolas Mangano, Thomas D. LaToza, Marian Petre, André van der Hoek

IEEE Trans. Software Eng., 2015

A practical guide to controlled experiments of software engineering tools with human participants.

Amy J. Ko, Thomas D. LaToza, Margaret M. Burnett

Empir. Softw. Eng., 2015

Ask the crowd: Scaffolding coordination and knowledge sharing in microtask programming.

Thomas D. LaToza, Arturo Di Lecce, Fabio Ricci, W. Ben Towne, André van der Hoek

Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, 2015

CodeExchange: Supporting Reformulation of Internet-Scale Code Queries in Context (T).

Lee Martie, Thomas D. LaToza, André van der Hoek

Proceedings of the 30th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 2015

A Vision of Crowd Development.

Thomas D. LaToza, André van der Hoek

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

Borrowing from the Crowd: A Study of Recombination in Software Design Competitions.

Thomas D. LaToza, Micky Chen, Luxi Jiang, Mengyao Zhao, André van der Hoek

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

2nd International Workshop on Crowd Sourcing in Software Engineering (CSI-SE 2015).

Gordon Fraser, Thomas D. LaToza, Leonardo Mariani

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

2014

Microtask programming: building software with a crowd.

Thomas D. LaToza, W. Ben Towne, Christian M. Adriano, André van der Hoek

Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2014

Supporting informal design with interactive whiteboards.

Nicolas Mangano, Thomas D. LaToza, Marian Petre, André van der Hoek

Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2014

2013

Enabling a classroom design studio with a collaborative sketch design tool.

Dastyni Loksa, Nicolas Mangano, Thomas D. LaToza, André van der Hoek

Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Software Engineering, 2013

Crowd development.

Thomas D. LaToza, W. Ben Towne, André van der Hoek, James D. Herbsleb

Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering, 2013

A study of architectural decision practices.

Thomas D. LaToza, Evelina Shabani, André van der Hoek

Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering, 2013

2012

Active code completion.

Cyrus Omar, YoungSeok Yoon, Thomas D. LaToza, Brad A. Myers

Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering, 2012

2011

Visualizing call graphs.

Thomas D. LaToza, Brad A. Myers

Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, 2011

Designing useful tools for developers.

Thomas D. LaToza, Brad A. Myers

Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGPLAN workshop on Evaluation and usability of programming languages and tools, 2011

2010

Hard-to-answer questions about code.

Thomas D. LaToza, Brad A. Myers

Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Evaluation and Usability of Programming Languages and Tools, 2010

On the importance of understanding the strategies that developers use.

Thomas D. LaToza, Brad A. Myers

Proceedings of the 2010 ICSE Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering, 2010

Developers ask reachability questions.

Thomas D. LaToza, Brad A. Myers

Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, 2010

Developer refinement of runtime architectural structure.

Marwan Abi-Antoun, Talia Selitsky, Thomas D. LaToza

Proceedings of the 2010 ICSE Workshop on Sharing and Reusing Architectural Knowledge, 2010

Questions about object structure during coding activities.

Marwan Abi-Antoun, Nariman Ammar, Thomas D. LaToza

Proceedings of the 2010 ICSE Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering, 2010

Searching across paths.

Thomas D. LaToza, Brad A. Myers

Proceedings of 2010 ICSE Workshop on Search-driven Development: Users, 2010

2008

Answering control flow questions about code.

Thomas D. LaToza

Proceedings of the Companion to the 23rd Annual ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, 2008

More natural end-user software engineering.

Brad A. Myers, Amy J. Ko, Sun Young Park, Jeffrey Stylos, Thomas D. LaToza, Jack Beaton

Proceedings of the 4th international workshop on End-user software engineering, 2008

Answering common questions about code.

Thomas D. LaToza

Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2008), 2008

2007

Program comprehension as fact finding.

Thomas D. LaToza, David Garlan, James D. Herbsleb, Brad A. Myers

Proceedings of the 6th joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering, 2007

2006

Using architecture to change code: studying information needs.

Thomas D. LaToza

Proceedings of the Companion to the 21th Annual ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, 2006

Maintaining mental models: a study of developer work habits.

Thomas D. LaToza, Gina Venolia, Robert DeLine

Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2006), 2006