Creating a cognitive metric of programming task difficulty

Conducting controlled experiments about programming activities often requires the use of multiple tasks of similar difficulty. In previously reported work about a controlled experiment investigating software exploration tools, we tried to select two change tasks of equivalent difficulty to be perfor...

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Veröffentlicht in:International Conference on Software Engineering 2008 Jg. 2008; H. 21
Hauptverfasser: de Alwis, Brian, Murphy, Gail C, Minto, Shawn
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 13.05.2008
ISBN:1605580392, 9781605580395
ISSN:0270-5257
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Zusammenfassung:Conducting controlled experiments about programming activities often requires the use of multiple tasks of similar difficulty. In previously reported work about a controlled experiment investigating software exploration tools, we tried to select two change tasks of equivalent difficulty to be performed on a medium-sized code base. Despite careful effort in the selection and confirmation from our pilot subjects finding the two tasks to be of equivalent difficulty, the data from the experiment suggest the subjects found one of the tasks more difficult than the other.
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ISBN:1605580392
9781605580395
ISSN:0270-5257
DOI:10.1145/1370114.1370122