SHF: Medium: Collaborative Research: Programming Strategies

软件开发人员创建和维护各种类型的软件，从消费者应用程序，企业业务软件和政府网站，到管理飞机，交通和水基础设施的安全关键系统。也就是说，软件开发人员使用编程策略来读、写、测试和修复软件。这个项目将系统地调查这些策略，开发新的方法来描述，传播和有效地教授编程策略。该项目还将探讨编程策略对生产力的影响，调查它们是否以及如何介导软件开发工具和技术（如编程语言、软件开发方法和开发人员工具）的有效性。该方法将包括两种类型的综合研究。第一种是系统分析软件开发人员的工作记录，这是因为最近开发人员在流行网站上直播了数十万小时的工作。该项目将从这些不同的视频中提取策略，在抽象策略描述的存储库中管理这些策略。第二类研究将是一系列的实验室和实地研究，调查编程策略的有效性如何变化，以及策略如何调节开发人员工具和技术的有效性。这些研究将为编程策略的研究奠定科学基础，并为研究人员和教育工作者提供一个实用的新资源库。

Software developers create and maintain software of all kinds, from consumer applications, enterprise business software, and government websites, to safety-critical systems that manage infrastructure for airplanes, traffic, and water. Implicitly, software developers use programming strategies to read, write, test, and repair software. This project will systematically investigate these strategies, developing new ways to describe, disseminate, and effectively teach programming strategies. The project will also explore the effect of programming strategies on productivity, investigating if and how they mediate the effectiveness of software development tools and techniques such as programming languages, software development methodologies, and developer tools.The approach will encompass a comprehensive set of studies of two kinds. The first kind will be systematic analyses of recordings of software developers at work, made possible by the recent availability of hundreds of thousands of hours of work live-streamed by developers on popular websites. The project will extract strategies from these diverse videos, curating these strategies in a repository of abstract strategy descriptions. The second kind of study will be a series of laboratory and field studies investigating how programming strategies vary in effectiveness as well as how strategies mediate the effectiveness of developer tools and techniques. Together, these studies will create a scientific foundation for the study of programming strategies as well as a practical new resource offering a repository of strategy descriptions to both researchers and educators.