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About the Project 

“An Empirical Study of Engaging Students Through Software Testing”

The theme of our project is to 1) better understand student difficulties with programming bugs, 2) develop ways to better engage students (i.e. recruitment and retention of Computer Science students), and 3) better understand how typically web-savvy students that struggle with programming bugs use the Internet to search for help (i.e. many students search for help on search engines, so we want to identify characteristics of “successful” and “less successful” strategies for searching for help on solving programming bugs so that we can share this with students and faculty).  We will also assess and extend an existing searchable repository of “buggy” code examples that are based on real programming bugs that previous students encountered.