The practice of programming
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Communications of the ACM
The Effectiveness of Control Structure Diagrams in Source Code Comprehension Activities
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Side-Effect Removal Transformation
IWPC '01 Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Program Comprehension
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Evolutionary testing in the presence of loop-assigned flags: a testability transformation approach
ISSTA '04 Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Software testing and analysis
An empirical comparison of the dynamic modeling in OML and UML
Journal of Systems and Software
Tool-Supported Refactoring of Existing Object-Oriented Code into Aspects
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Object and reference immutability using Java generics
Proceedings of the the 6th joint meeting of the European software engineering conference and the ACM SIGSOFT symposium on The foundations of software engineering
Combined static and dynamic mutability analysis
Proceedings of the twenty-second IEEE/ACM international conference on Automated software engineering
Parameter reference immutability: formal definition, inference tool, and comparison
Automated Software Engineering
Transformation for class immutability
Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering
Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering
Proceedings of the Second Edition of the International Workshop on Experiences and Empirical Studies in Software Modelling
Empirical answers to fundamental software engineering problems (panel)
Proceedings of the 2013 9th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering
An Empirical Investigation into Programming Language Syntax
ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE)
Aliasing in Object-Oriented Programming
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This paper reports the results of a study on the impact of a type of side effect (SE) upon program comprehension. We applied a crossover design on different tests involving fragments of C code that include increment and decrement operators. Each test had an SE version and a side-effect-free (SEF) counterpart. The variables measured in the treatments were the number of correct answers and the time spent in answering. The results show that the side-effect operators considered significantly reduce performance in comprehension-related tasks, providing empirical justification for the belief that side effects are harmful.