Expert problem solving strategies for program comprehension
CHI '91 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Software Maintenance Management
Software Maintenance Management
ECOOP '01 Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming
XVCL: XML-based variant configuration language
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Software Engineering
Using a behavioral theory of program comprehension in software engineering
ICSE '78 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Software engineering
WPC '97 Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Program Comprehension (WPC '97)
The effect of inheritance on the maintainability of object-oriented software: an empirical study
ICSM '95 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Variability management with feature-oriented programming and aspects
Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGSOFT twelfth international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
A Survey of Controlled Experiments in Software Engineering
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
ACoM '07 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Assessment of Contemporary Modularization Techniques
Evolving software product lines with aspects: an empirical study on design stability
Proceedings of the 30th international conference on Software engineering
Granularity in software product lines
Proceedings of the 30th international conference on Software engineering
A practical guide to testing the understandability of notations
APCCM '08 Proceedings of the fifth Asia-Pacific conference on Conceptual Modelling - Volume 79
A systematic review of quasi-experiments in software engineering
Information and Software Technology
Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Feature-Oriented Software Development
1st International Workshop on Feature-Oriented Software Development
ESEM '09 Proceedings of the 2009 3rd International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement
Status of empirical research in software engineering
Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Empirical software engineering issues: critical assessment and future directions
Evaluating support for features in advanced modularization technologies
ECOOP'05 Proceedings of the 19th European conference on Object-Oriented Programming
FeatureC++: on the symbiosis of feature-oriented and aspect-oriented programming
GPCE'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Generative Programming and Component Engineering
Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development I
View infinity: a zoomable interface for feature-oriented software development
Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering
Program comprehension in preprocessor-based software
SAFECOMP'12 Proceedings of the 2012 international conference on Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security
Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Variability Modelling of Software-intensive Systems
Do background colors improve program comprehension in the #ifdef hell?
Empirical Software Engineering
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There are many different implementation approaches to realize the vision of feature-oriented software development, ranging from simple preprocessors, over feature-oriented programming, to sophisticated aspect-oriented mechanisms. Their impact on readability and maintainability (or program comprehension in general) has caused a debate among researchers, but sound empirical results are missing. We report experience from our endeavor to conduct experiments to measure the influence of different implementation mechanisms on program comprehension. We describe how to design such experiments and report from possibilities and pitfalls we encountered. Finally, we present some early results of our first experiment on comparing the CPP tool with the CIDE tool.