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Measuring program comprehension: a large-scale field study with professionals

Xin Xia, Lingfeng Bao, David Lo, Zhenchang Xing, Ahmed E. Hassan, Shanping Li

PDFDOI 10.1145/3180155.3182538dblp

Abstract

During software development and maintenance, developers spend a considerable amount of time on program comprehension. Previous studies show that program comprehension takes up as much as half of a developer's time. However, most of these studies are performed in a controlled setting, or with a small number of participants, and investigate the program comprehension activities only within the IDEs. However, developers' program comprehension activities go well beyond their IDE interactions.

BibTeX
@inproceedings{Xia-al:ICSE18,
  author    = {Xin Xia and
               Lingfeng Bao and
               David Lo and
               Zhenchang Xing and
               Ahmed E. Hassan and
               Shanping Li},
  title     = {Measuring program comprehension: a large-scale field study with professionals},
  booktitle = {ICSE},
  pages     = {584},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year      = {2018},
}

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