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

犹他州立大学的捕获、分析和预防错误(CAP Bugs)项目教育学生通过收集和分类关于新手程序员犯下的错误的数据来主动避免错误。漏洞数据与学生和教职员工共享。因此，学生们感觉不那么孤立，更有信心，教职员工可以迅速解决课程中的问题。该项目包括一个网络应用程序，根据学生记录的错误建议未来应避免的错误；一个网站，包含如何识别常见错误、为什么会发生以及如何修复这些错误的视频和练习；以及基于真实学生的真实错误的课程材料。此外，一个软件测试竞赛系统正在开发中。测试竞赛提供了编程竞赛的另一种选择，目标是具有解决问题技能但缺乏广泛编程经验的学生。软件测试竞赛吸引了更广泛的观众，吸引了女性、代表性不足的少数族裔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.