Traditional quantitative research methods of data collection in programming, such as
questionnaires and interviews, are the most common approaches for researchers in this …

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 …

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

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

Previous studies have reported mixed results regarding the relationship between students'
use of self-regulated learning (SRL) strategies and their performance in introductory …

Eye-tracking studies are getting more prevalent in software engineering. Researchers often
use different metrics when publishing their results in eye-tracking studies. Even when the …

Remote collaboration can be more difficult than collocated collaboration for a number of
reasons, including the inability to easily determine what your collaborator is looking at. This …

Neural source code summarization is the task of generating natural language descriptions of
source code behavior using neural networks. A fundamental component of most neural …

Modeling eye movement indicative of expertise behavior is decisive in user evaluation.
However, it is indisputable that task semantics affect gaze behavior. We present a novel …

In integrated development environments, developers receive compiler error messages
through a variety of textual and visual mechanisms, such as popups and wavy red …