Title | ||
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Triangulating Experiments in an Industrial Setting to Evaluate Preferred Representational Systems of Software Developers |
Abstract | ||
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Software development results in historic data. In recent years, researchers have been conducting linguistic analyses of mailing lists to understand the intricacies of software development. A new approach for that is to use Neurolinguistic Theory (NT). NT postulates that each person uses a preferred representational cognitive system (PRS) in each specific context. Thus, although each software developer uses a variety ofrepresentational systems to understand software, each has his or her own preferred representational system. In this paper, we analyze a psychometrically-based neurolinguistic method to classify the PRSs of software developers in an industrial setting. Our experimental evaluation of the approach is carried out in three combined experiments: (1) a study assesses the PRSs of industrial developers using a project's mailing lists, (2) a survey of software developers to establish their PRSs, and (3) a controlled experiment that carefully analyzes and visualizes strategies to perform software comprehension activities supported by a visualization tool. The results indicate that our approach can indeed be used to determine software developers' PRS. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2014 | 10.1109/SBES.2014.22 | SBES |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
software comprehension, mental imagery, neurolinguistic, experimental software engineering,mental imagery | Personal software process,Software engineering,Systems engineering,Software analytics,Computer science,Software peer review,Experimental software engineering,Software construction,Software quality,Software visualization,Software development | Conference |
Citations | PageRank | References |
0 | 0.34 | 11 |
Authors | ||
5 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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Methanias Colaço Jr. | 1 | 0 | 0.34 |
Mário André de Freitas Farias | 2 | 20 | 3.16 |
Igor Maciel | 3 | 0 | 0.34 |
Paulo Henrique dos Santos | 4 | 0 | 0.34 |
Manoel Gomes Mendonca | 5 | 192 | 25.28 |