Publications

This page present a list of publication highlights. For a full overview, see also Google Scholar.

2021

Children’s implicit and explicit stereotypes on the gender, social skills, and interests of a computer scientist.
Shirley de Wit, Felienne Hermans& Efthimia Aivaloglou, in Proceedings of ICER ’21

Teachers’ Views and Experiences on Teaching Second and Subsequent Programming Languages.
Ethel Tshukudu, Quintin Cutts, Olivier Goletti, Alaaeddin Swidan & Felienne Hermans, in Proceedings of ICER ’21

2020

Computerized adaptive assessment of understanding of programming concepts in primary school children. Sally Hogenboom, Felienne Hermans & Han van der Maas, in Journal of Computing Education

To Be or Not to Be a Teacher? Exploring CS Students’ Perceptions of a Teaching Career. Sabiha Yeni, Efthimia Aivaloglou, F Hermans, in Proceedings of Koli Calling’20:

Notional machines in computing education: The education of attention. Sally Fincher, Johan Jeuring, Craig S Miller, Peter Donaldson, Benedict Du Boulay, Matthias Hauswirth, Arto Hellas, Felienne Hermans, Colleen Lewis, Andreas Mühling, Janice L Pearce, Andrew Petersen, in Proceedings of the Working Group Reports on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE) ’20

Hedy: a gradual language for programming education. Felienne Hermans, in Proceedings of ICER ’20

Ten simple rules for getting started on Twitter as a scientist. Veronika Cheplygina, Felienne Hermans, Casper Albers, Natalya Bielczyk & Ionica Smeets, in PLOS Computational Biology ’20

2019

XLBlocks: a Block-based Formula Editor for Spreadsheet Formulas. Bas Jansen & Felienne Hermans, in Proceedings of VL/HCC’ 19 (paper, auxiliary materials, video)
The Effect of Reading Code Aloud on Comprehension: An Empirical Study with School Students. Alaaeddin Swidan & Felienne Hermans. In Proceedings of CompEd ’19.
Early Programming Education and Career Orientation: the Effects of Gender, Self-Efficacy, Motivation and Stereotypes – Efthimia Aivaloglou & Felienne Hermans. In proceedings of SIGCSE ’19 (paper)
Pragmatic Software Testing Education – Mauricio Aniche, Felienne Hermans & Arie van Deursen. In proceedings of SIGCSE ’19.

2018

Investigating the Pedagogical Content Knowledge of Teachers Attending a MOOC on Scratch Programming – Ebrahim Rahimi, Ineke Henze, Felienne Hermans, Erik Barendsen. In proceedings of International Conference on Informatics in Schools
Programming Misconceptions for School Students – Alaaeddin Swidan, Efthimia Aivaloglou, Marileen Smit and Felienne Hermans. In proceedings of ICER
Code Phonology: an exploration into the vocalization of code – Felienne Hermans and Alaaeddin Swidan and Efthimia Aivaloglou. In proceedings of ICPC (blog, paper)
On the Effectiveness of Automatically Inferred Invariants in Detecting Regression Faults in Spreadsheets – Sohon Roy and Felienne Hermans and Arie van Deursen. In companion proceedings of QRS

2017

To Scratch or not to Scratch?!: A controlled experiment comparing plugged first and unplugged first programming lessons – Felienne Hermans and Efthimia Aivaloglou. In proceedings of WIPSCE (blog, paper)
Programming Education to Preschoolers: Reflections and Observations from a Field
Study – Alaaeddin Swidan and Felienne Hermans. In Proceedings of Psychology of Programming Interest Group (blog Dutch, paper)
A Dataset of Scratch Programs: Scraped, Shaped and Scored – Efthimia Aivaloglou, Felienne Hermans, Jesús Moreno León and Gregorio Robles. In Proceedings of MSR
The Effect of Delocalized Plans on Spreadsheet Comprehension – A Controlled Experiment – Bas Jansen and Felienne Hermans In proceedings of ICPC (paper)
Teaching Software Engineering Principles to K-12 Students: A MOOC on Scratch – Felienne Hermans and Efthimia Aivaloglou. In proceedings of ICSE (blog, paper)
Programming is writing is programming – Felienne Hermans and Marlies Aldewereld, In proceedings of Salon des Refuses 2017 (blog, paper)

2016

Spreadsheet Testing in Practice – Sohon Roy, Felienne Hermans, and Arie van Deursen, In proceedings of SANER 16 (paper)
Smells in Block-Based Programming Languages – Felienne Hermans, Kathryn Stolee and David Hoepelman, In proceedings of VL/HCC 2016
How kids code and how we know: An Exploratory Study on the Scratch Repository – Efthimia Aivaloglou and Felienne Hermans, In proceedings of ICER 2016 (paper)
Do code smells hamper novice programming: A controlled experiment on Scratch Programs – Felienne Hermans, Efthimia Aivaloglou, In proceedings of ICPC 2016 (blog, paper)
In the Future, Everyone Will Be a Programmer for 15 Minutes – Felienne Hermans, IEEE Software (pdf)
Improving the Performance of a Large Scale Spreadsheet: A Case Study – Alaaeddin Swidan, Felienne Hermans and Ruben Koesoemowidjojo, In Proceedings of SANER ’16
Evaluating Automatic Spreadsheet Metadata Extraction on a Large Set of Responses from MOOC Participants – Sohon Roy, Felienne Hermans, Efthimia Aivaloglou, Jos Winter and Arie van Deursen, In Proceedings of SANER ’16
Spreadsheets are Code: An Overview of Software Engineering Approaches applied to Spreadsheets – Felienne Hermans, Bas Jansen, Sohon Roy, Efthimia Aivaloglou, Alaaeddin Swidan and David Hoepelman, In Proceedings of SANER ’16. (video)

2015

Detecting and Repairing Smelly Lookup Functions in Spreadsheets – Felienne Hermans, Efthimia Aivaloglou & Bas Jansen, Proceedings of VL/HCC ’15 (blog)
Code Smells in Spreadsheet Formulas Revisited on an Industrial Dataset – Bas Jansen & Felienne Hermans, Proceedings of ICSME ’15
A Grammar for Spreadsheet Formulas Evaluated on Two Large Datasets – Efthimia Aivaloglou, David Hoepelman & Felienne Hermans, Proceedings of SCAM ’15
Coda Lisa: Collaborative Art in the Browser – Felienne Hermans & Rico Huijbers, Proceedings of ICLC ’15
Copy-Paste Tracking: Fixing Spreadsheets Without Breaking Them – Felienne Hermans & Tijs Van Der Storm, Proceedings of ICLC ’15
Enron’s Spreadsheets and Related Emails: A Dataset and Analysis – Felienne Hermans & Emerson Murphy Hill, Proceedings of ICSE’ 15 (blog)

2014

BumbleBee, a tool for spreadsheet formula transformations – Felienne Hermans & Danny Dig (Blog) Proceedings of FSE ’14
Anonymizing Spreadsheet Data and Metadata with AnonymousXL – Felienne & Joeri van Veen (Live Blog, Google Scholar) Proceedings of SEMS ’14.
Using a Visual Language to Create Better Spreadsheets Proceedings – Bas Jansen & Felienne Hermans (Live blog, Google Scholar) of SEMS ’14.
Dependence Tracing Techniques for Spreadsheets: An Investigation – Sohon Roy & Felienne Hermans (Live blog, Google Scholar) Proceedings of SEMS ’14.
Detecting and refactoring code smells in spreadsheet formulas – Felienne Hermans, Martin Pinzger & Arie van Deursen (Google Scholar, figshare) Empirical Software Engineering

2013

Improving Spreadsheet Test Practices – Felienne Hermans (Google Scholar, Blog, Slides) Proceedings of CASCON ’13. Best paper award
Data clone detection and visualization in spreadsheets – Felienne Hermans, Ben Sedee, Martin Pinzger & Arie van Deursen (Google Scholar, Blog) Proceedings of ICSE ’13 ACM Distinguished paper award
Analyzing and visualizing spreadsheets – Felienne Hermans, PhD dissertation (Blog)

2012

Exact and Near-miss Clone Detection in Spreadsheets – Felienne Hermans, Martin Pinzger & Arie van Deursen  (Google Scholar, TinyToCS) TinyToCS, Vol. 1
Detecting code smells in spreadsheet formulas – Felienne Hermans, Martin Pinzger & Arie van Deursen (Google Scholar, Blog) Proceedings of ICSM ’12
Measuring spreadsheet formula understandability – Felienne Hermans, Martin Pinzger & Arie van Deursen(Google Scholar, Arxiv) Proceedings of EuSpRIG ’12
Detecting and visualizing inter-worksheet smells in spreadsheets – Felienne Hermans, Martin Pinzger & Arie van Deursen (Google Scholar, ACM DL) Proceedings of ICSE ’12

2011

Breviz: visualizing spreadsheets using dataflow diagrams – Felienne Hermans, Martin Pinzger & Arie van Deursen (Google Scholar, Arxiv) Proceedings of EuSpRIG ’11
Supporting professional spreadsheet users by generating leveled dataflow diagrams – Felienne Hermans, Martin Pinzger & Arie van Deursen (Google Scholar, ACM DL) Proceedings of ICSE ’11

2010

Automatically extracting class diagrams from spreadsheets – Felienne Hermans, Martin Pinzger & Arie van Deursen (Google Scholar, SpringerLink) Proceedings of ECOOP ’10

2009

Domain-specific languages in practice: A user study on the success factors – Felienne Hermans, Martin Pinzger & Arie van Deursen (Google Scholar, SpringerLink) Proceedings of MODELS ’09
Gathering domain knowledge from spreadsheets – Felienne Hermans (Google Scholar, ACM DL) Proceedings of ESEC/FSE ’09, Doctoral Symposium