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arXiv 2008.11262cs.CY
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编程项目的学生团队合作:GitHub日志能告诉我们什么?

Student Teamwork on Programming Projects: What can GitHub logs show us?

Niki Gitinabard, Ruth Okoilu, Yiqao Xu, Sarah Heckman, Tiffany Barnes, Collin Lynch

摘要:

团队合作,通常由Git和Apache Subversion(SVN)等版本控制系统介导,是专业编程的核心。因此,许多大学正在将协作和在线开发环境纳入其课程,甚至在入门课程中。在这项研究中,我们收集了GitHub日志从两个编程项目中的两个产品的CS2 Java编程课程的计算机科学专业。学生们在每一年的两个项目(一个可选的,其他强制性)成对工作。我们使用学生的GitHub历史记录,根据劳动分工将学生团队分为三组:协作组、合作组或单独提交组。然后,我们计算了学生团队合作的不同指标,包括项目不同部分的提交总数和平均数量,并使用这些指标来预测学生的团队合作风格。我们的研究结果显示,我们可以自动识别学生的团队合作风格,从他们的提交日志。这项工作有助于我们更好地了解新手在使用版本控制系统时的习惯。这些习惯可以识别他们之间有害的工作方式,并可能导致未来团队合作和同伴支持的自动脚手架的发展。

英文摘要:

Teamwork, often mediated by version control systems such as Git and Apache Subversion (SVN), is central to professional programming. As a consequence, many colleges are incorporating both collaboration and online development environments into their curricula even in introductory courses. In this research, we collected GitHub logs from two programming projects in two offerings of a CS2 Java programming course for computer science majors. Students worked in pairs for both projects (one optional, the other mandatory) in each year. We used the students' GitHub history to classify the student teams into three groups, collaborative, cooperative, or solo-submit, based on the division of labor. We then calculated different metrics for students' teamwork including the total number and the average number of commits in different parts of the projects and used these metrics to predict the students' teamwork style. Our findings show that we can identify the students' teamwork style automatically from their submission logs. This work helps us to better understand novices' habits while using version control systems. These habits can identify the harmful working styles among them and might lead to the development of automatic scaffolds for teamwork and peer support in the future.

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