In Grade 11 I participated in a research co-op with The Foundation of Student Science and Technology (FSST). I worked with Dr. Mei Nagappan, an assistant professor of software engineering at the University of Waterloo. The research was looking to see the relationship between a software developer’s experience, and the likelihood that they will introduce a defect in the software. For this project I had to learn how software was developed in the open source world. I developed Python scripts to mine the data from GitHub repositories. Finally I had to build statistical models to determine the relationship using logistic regression. As part of the project a formal scientific research paper titled ‘Examining the Relationship Between Developer Experience and Defects’ was submitted to the Journal of Student Science and Technology.
