CAP Bugs: A Process to Capture, Analyze, and Prevent Bugs

犹他州立大学的捕获、分析和预防bug （CAP Bugs）项目通过收集和分类关于新手程序员所犯错误的数据，教育学生主动避免bug。Bug数据与学生和教师共享。因此，学生们感到不那么孤立，更有信心，教师们也得到了及时解决课程问题的方法。该项目包括一个web应用程序，该应用程序根据学生记录的错误推荐将来避免的错误；一个包含视频和练习的网站，介绍如何识别常见bug，为什么会发生，以及如何修复它们；课程材料基于真实学生的真实bug。此外，一个软件测试竞赛系统正在开发中。测试竞赛为编程竞赛提供了另一种选择，针对具有解决问题能力但缺乏丰富编程经验的学生。软件测试比赛吸引了更广泛的观众，吸引了女性、未被充分代表的少数民族学生和接触编程有限的学生。

The Capture, Analyze, and Prevent Bugs (CAP Bugs) project at Utah State University educates students to proactively avoid bugs by collecting and classifying data about mistakes made by novice programmers. Bug data is shared with students and faculty. As a result, students feel less isolated and more confident and faculty members are given the means to promptly address issues in their courses.The project includes a web application that recommends bugs to avoid in the future based on bugs logged by students; a website that contains videos and exercises about how to identify common bugs, why they occur, and how to fix them; and course materials based on real bugs from real students.In addition, a system for software testing competitions is under development. Testing competitions provide an alternative to programming competitions, targeting students with problem solving skills, but lacking extensive programming experience. The software testing competitions appeal to a broader audience and attract women, underrepresented minority students and students with limited exposure to programming.