DEBT Workshop Paper on Visual Debugger with Representation Conversion

The paper titled “Program State Visualizer with User-Defined Representation Conversion (WIP)” authored by Rifqi Adlan Apriyadi, Hidehiko Masuhara, and Youyou Cong has been accepted by the first Future Debugging Techniques (DEBT) workshop, co-located with the 37th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2023) to be held at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA.

ITiCSE Paper on the Error Generating Quiz

A paper titled “Mind the Error Message: an Inverted Quiz Format to Direct Learner’s Attention to Error Messages”, authored by Kazuhiro Tsunoda, Hidehiko Masuhara and Youyou Cong is accepted by the ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2023). We are glad that our paper is one of 81 accepted papers among 299 submissions. The conference is held in Turku, Finland, in July 2023.

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JSS Article on Code Legibility

Our paper, entitled “A Systematic Literature Review on the Impact of Formatting Elements on Code Legibility”, authored by Delano Oliveira, Reydne Santos, Fernanda Madeiral, Hidehiko Masuhara, and Fernando Castor, is accepted by the Journal of Systems and Software. It is our pleasure to publish the result of our collaboration including the Fernando’s visit in 2019.

Delano Oliveira, Reydne Santos, Fernanda Madeiral, Hidehiko Masuhara, and Fernando Castor. A systematic literature review on the impact of formatting elements on code legibility. The Journal of Systems and Software, p. 111728, 2023. DOI:10.1016/j.jss.2023.111728

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New Members and a Promotion

We (finally) welcomed new members since Spring 2023.

We welcome six new undergraduate members and one master course member to the group in this spring.  We also proudly announce that Youyou Cong is advanced to the tenure track, which means she will officially supervise students. (That’s why we have more undergrads this year than before.)

We now have 20 students and 2 faculty members. One of our first challenges is to remember each other’s names.😉

Graduation March 2023

We celebrated graduation of our members. This year, 2 doctors, 3 masters and 2 bachelors were awarded their degrees. Four of them left the university while three will continue to work with us to pursuit the next degrees. We wish their bright future no matter where they will be!

Izawa received the PhD degree and will work as a researcher in a global company. Tanabe also received the PhD degree and will work as a post-doctoral researcher at Kyoto University. Ikemori received the Master’s degree and will pursuit the PhD degree in our group. Furudono and Takahashi also received the Master’s degrees and will work as a researcher/developer in tech companies. Kiuch and Sakai received the Bachelor’s degrees and will pursuit the Master’s degrees in our group.