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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| Published in: | International Conference on Software Engineering 2008 Vol. 2008; no. 21 |
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| Main Authors: | , , |
| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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13.05.2008
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| ISBN: | 1605580392, 9781605580395 |
| ISSN: | 0270-5257 |
| Online Access: | Get full text |
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| Summary: | 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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| Bibliography: | SourceType-Scholarly Journals-2 ObjectType-Feature-2 ObjectType-Conference Paper-1 content type line 23 SourceType-Conference Papers & Proceedings-1 ObjectType-Article-3 |
| ISBN: | 1605580392 9781605580395 |
| ISSN: | 0270-5257 |
| DOI: | 10.1145/1370114.1370122 |