CST 462s Modules 4 & 5

Weeks 4 and 5,

This journal entry is a combination of weeks 4 and 5 because both weeks are focused on conducting interviews\surveys for our research paper. However, despite the time we are given to obtain our data, we are falling behind on our responses. It would seem that the questions are a bit confusing to the students so we need to make our questions more clear. 


The service learning is going well, and I’ve been introduced to binary bisecting (bibisecting). To summarize, I download a couple of older versions of LibreOffice, and using Git, I try and find which commit first introduced a bug, which can also be used to find regressions in LibreOffice. I then post my results in the related bug report. This is pretty interesting, and I can see how this would be a very powerful tool to use in future projects of my own.

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