The Structural Complexity of Software: An Experimental Test
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
The impacts of function extraction technology on program comprehension: A controlled experiment
Information and Software Technology
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Program comprehension can make a unique contribution to the field of software engineering because it is possible to validate its claims with inexpensive experiments. To fully realize this unique position, program comprehension researchers need to develop standards that will guide them in designing experiments and allow them to judge the strength of an experiment in supporting a claim. To begin the discussion leading to such standards, we propose that program comprehension experiments always measure and interpret the following dependent variables: accuracy, accurate response time, and inaccurate response time.