In the past decade, brain and autonomic nervous system activity measurement received
increasing attention in the study of software engineering (SE). This paper presents a …

Computer programming is becoming essential across fields. Traditionally grouped with
science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines, programming also …

For several years, the software engineering research community used eye trackers to study
program comprehension, bug localization, pair programming, and other software …

In theory,(good) documentation is an invaluable asset to any software project, as it helps
stakeholders to use, understand, maintain, and evolve a system. In practice, however …

Computer programming is a novel cognitive tool that has transformed modern society. What
cognitive and neural mechanisms support this skill? Here, we used functional magnetic …

Background: Researchers and practitioners have been using code complexity metrics for
decades to predict how developers comprehend a program. While it is plausible and …

Code comments are important artifacts in software systems and play a paramount role in
many software engineering (SE) tasks related to maintenance and program comprehension …

Program comprehension is an important, but hard to measure cognitive process. This makes
it difficult to provide suitable programming languages, tools, or coding conventions to …

Context: Cognitive load in software engineering refers to the mental effort users spend while
reading software artifacts. The cognitive load can vary according to tasks and across …

Software refactoring is the activity associated with developers changing the internal structure
of source code without modifying its external behavior. The literature argues that refactoring …