Brian Hanks

Computer Science
UC Santa Cruz
brianh@soe.ucsc.edu

I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science at the University of California at Santa Cruz, where I am researching tool support for distributed pair programming. My dissertation proposal describes my research plans in detail.

My interests include agile processes, pair programming, formal reviews, empirical software engineering, software engineering education, and computer-supported collaborative work. My advisor is Professor Charlie McDowell.

My Curriculum Vitae.

My research is supported by NSF award number DUE-0341276, "Virtual Pair Programming in Undergraduate Education". Here is a copy of the research proposal, and here is a proposal summary.

Teaching

• I'm teaching CMPS12B, Introduction to Data Structures, in Winter 2004.
• I taught CMPS12A, Introduction to Programming, in Fall 2003 and also in Winter 2003.
• I was Teaching Assistant in CMPS 115, Software Methodology in Spring 2002 and Fall 2002.

Papers

Program Quality with Pair Programming in CS1
Brian Hanks and Charlie McDowell
submitted for publication.

Empirical Studies of Pair Programming
Brian Hanks
Position paper for 2nd International Workshop on Empirical Evaluation of Agile Processes (EEAP 2003), August 10, 2003.

Experimenting with Pair Programming in the Classroom
Charlie McDowell, Brian Hanks, and Linda Werner
Proceedings of the 8th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2003), June 30 - July 2, 2003, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Virtual Pair Programming
Brian Hanks
Doctoral Symposium at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2003), May 3 - 10, 2003, Portland, OR.

Can We Influence Students' Attitudes about Inspections? Can We Measure a Change in Attitude?
D. Bailey, T. Conn, B. Hanks, and L. Werner
Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T 2003), March 20 - 22, 2003, Madrid, Spain. Pages: 260-267.

What Constitutes a "Better" Student Program?
C. McDowell, B. Hanks, and L. Werner
Poster presentation, Technical Symposium on Computer Science Eduation (SIGCSE 2003), February 19 - 23, 2003, Reno, NV

In August, 2002 I participated in the Distributed Pair Programming Workshop at XP/Agile Universe. My position paper describes the tool I am developing to support distributed pair programming.

Links

Extreme Programming

• XP/Agile Universe Conference - held in the U.S.
• International Conference on eXtreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering - held annually in Europe.
• Don Wells's Extreme Programming web site provides a good introduction and information about XP resources.
• Ron Jeffries's XProgramming.com site includes XP magazine, complete with Ron's wit and wisdom.
• William Wake's XP123 has useful information about XP, including some wonderful games for teaching XP principles.
• ExtremeProgramming on the Wiki.

Pair Programming

• My Pair Programming Bibliography contains links and references to books and papers on pair programming.
• Laurie Williams at North Carolina State University is a leading pair programming researcher.
• Distributed Pair Programming Workshop at XP/Agile Universe 2002.
• Pair Programming Explored Workshop at OOPSLA 2002.
• PairProgramming and VirtualPairProgramming on the Wiki

Software Engineering Education

• Tom Hilburn maintains an excellent set of links to Software Engineering Education resources on the web.

Formal Technical Reviews

• Philip Johnson maintains the WWW Formal Technical Review Archive. Excellent source of material on formal reviews and inspections, including bibliography, tools, and resources for instructors.