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

犹他州州立大学的“捕获、分析和预防错误”（CAP错误）项目通过收集和分类新手程序员所犯错误的数据，教育学生主动避免错误。Bug数据与学生和教师共享。 因此，学生们感到不那么孤立，更加自信，教师们也得到了及时解决课程中问题的方法。该项目包括一个网络应用程序，该程序根据学生记录的错误推荐将来要避免的错误;一个网站，该网站包含有关如何识别常见错误、为什么会发生以及如何修复错误的视频和练习;和基于真实的学生的真实的错误的课程材料。此外，正在开发一个软件测试竞赛系统。 测试竞赛提供了编程竞赛的替代方案，目标是具有解决问题能力但缺乏丰富编程经验的学生。 软件测试竞赛吸引了更广泛的受众，并吸引了妇女、代表性不足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.