The relevance of code comprehension in a developer's daily work was recognized more
than 40 years ago. Consequently, many experiments were conducted to find out how …

Context Previous studies have raised concerns about the analysis and meta-analysis of
crossover experiments and we were aware of several families of experiments that used …

Technological evolution has enabled the development of new artificial intelligence (AI)
models with generative capabilities. Among them, one of the most discussed is the virtual …

Abstract Context Web APIs are one of the most used ways to expose application functionality
on the Web, and their understandability is important for efficiently using the provided …

In this study, the existence of anchoring bias—people's tendency to rely on, evaluate, and
decide based on the first piece of information they receive—is examined in two multi …

Background. Test-Driven Development (TDD) is an agile software development practice,
which encourages developers to write “quick-and-dirty” production code to make tests pass …

Context Software engineering (SE) experiments often have small sample sizes. This can
result in data sets with non-normal characteristics, which poses problems as standard …

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is an approach for infrastructure automation that is based on
software development practices. The IaC approach supports code-centric tools that use …

It is commonly accepted that the quality of requirements specifications impacts subsequent
software engineering activities. However, we still lack empirical evidence to support …

Abstract The two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) user interfaces have been a
prominent topic of augmented reality (AR) research, and their impact on the efficacy and …