Context. Although research in software engineering largely seeks to improve the practices
and products of software development, many practices are based upon codification of expert …

Powered by recent advances in code-generating models, AI assistants like Github Copilot
promise to change the face of programming forever. But what is this new face of …

We analyzed effectiveness of three generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) models in
answering multiple-choice question (MCQ) assessments, often involving short snippets of …

Context: Programmers' mental models represent their knowledge and understanding of
programs, programming concepts, and programming in general. They guide programmers' …

Software developers make programming mistakes that cause serious bugs for their
customers. Existing work to detect problematic software focuses mainly on post hoc …

This paper investigates the role of online resources in problem solving. We look specifically
at how programmers-an exemplar form of knowledge workers-opportunistically interleave …

In this dynamic review and synthesis of empirical research and theoretical discussion of
design as cognitive activity, Willemien Visser reconciles and integrates the classical view of …

Research in program comprehension has evolved considerably over the past decades.
However, only little is known about how developers practice program comprehension in …

Software readability is a property that influences how easily a given piece of code can be
read and understood. Since readability can affect maintainability, quality, etc., programmers …

This overview paper defends an augmented cognitively oriented generic-design hypothesis:
there are both significant similarities between the design activities implemented in different …