An empirical investigation on the relation between analysis models and source code comprehension

Authors:
Carmine Gravino;Genoveffa Tortora;Giuseppe Scanniello
Affiliations:
University of Salerno, Via Ponte Don Melillo;University of Salerno, Via Ponte Don Melillo;University of Basilicata, Viale Dell'Ateneo, Macchia Romana
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Year:
2010

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Abstract

This paper presents a controlled experiment to investigate whether the comprehension of source code increases in case novice software engineers use abstract software models produced in the early phase of the software development, i.e., requirements analysis. The study has revealed that there is not significant difference in the comprehension of source code achieved by using or not abstract software models.