Processes in computer program comprehension
Papers presented at the first workshop on empirical studies of programmers on Empirical studies of programmers
Comprehension strategies in programming
Empirical studies of programmers: second workshop
Beacons: a knowledge structure in program comprehension
Proceedings of the third international conference on human-computer interaction on Designing and using human-computer interfaces and knowledge based systems (2nd ed.)
An Undergraduate Course in Software Maintenance and Enhancement
CSEET '97 Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training
An eye-tracking methodology for characterizing program comprehension processes
Proceedings of the 2006 symposium on Eye tracking research & applications
Analyzing individual performance of source code review using reviewers' eye movement
Proceedings of the 2006 symposium on Eye tracking research & applications
Supporting CS1 with a program beacon recognition tool
Proceedings of the 2007 annual research conference of the South African institute of computer scientists and information technologists on IT research in developing countries
Temporal eye-tracking data: evolution of debugging strategies with multiple representations
Proceedings of the 2008 symposium on Eye tracking research & applications
Exploiting Eye Movements for Evaluating Reviewer's Performance in Software Review
IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Shared visual attention in collaborative programming: a descriptive analysis
Proceedings of the 2010 ICSE Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering
On the use of eye tracking in software traceability
Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Traceability in Emerging Forms of Software Engineering
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Analysis of code reading to gain more insight in program comprehension
Proceedings of the 11th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research
An eye-tracking study on the role of scan time in finding source code defects
Proceedings of the Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications
Comparing mental models of novice programmers when using visual and command line environments
Proceedings of the 50th Annual Southeast Regional Conference
The impact of identifier style on effort and comprehension
Empirical Software Engineering
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The authors report on an experiment that explored the way subjects view an algorithm, written in Pascal, and the graphical representation of its behavior. They designed the experiment to examine the influence of programming experience on how subjects view a short but complex algorithm, and they analyzed the scan patterns of eye movement for subjects at two experience levels. They describe the experimental procedure in detail, and discuss the results. An important finding was that all subjects needed numerous fixations in most areas of the algorithm and spent more time viewing relevant slide areas than did subjects in studies using simple text. This supports the hypothesis that viewing strategies for algorithms differ from those for prose.