Diagnostic messages generated by compilers and interpreters such as syntax error
messages have been researched for over half of a century. Unfortunately, these messages …

A key part of learning to program is learning to understand programming error messages.
They can be hard to interpret and identifying the cause of errors can be time-consuming …

For several years, the software engineering research community used eye trackers to study
program comprehension, bug localization, pair programming, and other software …

Eye tracking is becoming more and more important as a research method within the field of
software engineering (SE). Existing meta-analyses focus on the design or conduct of SE eye …

Programming error messages play an important role in learning to program. The cycle of
program input and error message response completes a loop between the programmer and …

The usable security community is increasingly considering how to improve security decision-
making not only for end users, but also for information technology professionals, including …

Software engineering is a socio-technical endeavor, and while many of our contributions
focus on technical aspects, human stakeholders such as software developers are directly …

Most novice programmers are not explicitly aware of the problem-solving process used to
approach programming problems and cannot articulate to an instructor where they are in …

In this paper, we evaluate the most effective error message types through a large-scale
randomized controlled trial conducted in an open-access, online introductory computer …

Cryptographic API misuse is responsible for a large number of software vulnerabilities. In
many cases developers are overburdened by the complex set of programming choices and …