40 years of designing code comprehension experiments: A systematic map** study

M Wyrich, J Bogner, S Wagner - ACM Computing Surveys, 2023 - dl.acm.org
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 …

A practical guide on conducting eye tracking studies in software engineering

Z Sharafi, B Sharif, YG Guéhéneuc, A Begel… - Empirical Software …, 2020 - Springer
For several years, the software engineering research community used eye trackers to study
program comprehension, bug localization, pair programming, and other software …

The sampling precision of research in five major areas of psychology

D Trafimow, HA Myüz - Behavior Research Methods, 2019 - Springer
After obtaining a sample of published, peer-reviewed articles from journals with high and
low impact factors in social, cognitive, neuro-, developmental, and clinical psychology, we …

[HTML][HTML] EMIP: The eye movements in programming dataset

R Bednarik, T Busjahn, A Gibaldi, A Ahadi… - Science of Computer …, 2020 - Elsevier
A large dataset that contains the eye movements of N= 216 programmers of different
experience levels captured during two code comprehension tasks is presented. Data are …

Evidence profiles for validity threats in program comprehension experiments

MM Barón, M Wyrich, D Graziotin… - 2023 IEEE/ACM 45th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Searching for clues, gathering evidence, and reviewing case files are all techniques used by
criminal investigators to draw sound conclusions and avoid wrongful convictions. Medicine …

How experts adapt their gaze behavior when modeling a task to novices

SN Emhardt, EM Kok, H Jarodzka… - Cognitive …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Domain experts regularly teach novice students how to perform a task. This often
requires them to adjust their behavior to the less knowledgeable audience and, hence, to …

[PDF][PDF] A Neuro-Cognitive Perspective of Program Comprehension

N Peitek - 2022 - peitek.com
A Neuro-Cognitive Perspective of Program Comprehension Page 1 Chemnitz · 27 April
2022 Dissertation Defense A Neuro-Cognitive Perspective of Program Comprehension …

Decoding the underlying cognitive processes and related support strategies utilised by expert instructors during source code comprehension

PJ Khomokhoana, L Nel - South African Computer Journal, 2020 - journals.co.za
Many novice programmers fail to comprehend source code and its related concepts in the
same way that their instructors do. As emphasised in the Decoding the Disciplines (DtDs) …

Validating the threats to validity in program comprehension experiments

M Muñoz Barón - 2022 - elib.uni-stuttgart.de
BACKGROUND: Designing empirical software engineering methodologies presupposes the
existence of evidence to base actions on empirical fact. Understanding what factors may …

[PDF][PDF] Validating the Threats to Validity in Program Comprehension Experiments

MM Barón - 2022 - scholar.archive.org
BACKGROUND: Designing empirical software engineering methodologies presupposes the
existence of evidence to base actions on empirical fact. Understanding what factors may …