Paper Info
Title
Recognizing eye tracking traits for source code review
Abstract
Source code review is a core activity in software engineering where a reviewer examines the code with the intention of finding bugs in the program. A lot of research has been carried out in understanding how software engineers perform code comprehension; however contribution of eye tracking traits seems to have not been addressed. This paper outlines a study conducted in an industrial environment of software engineers. It focused on understanding the visual attention of subjects with programming skills and subjects without programming skills and recognize the eye tracking traits required for source code review. The results indicate a significant difference in gaze behaviors of these groups. The key aspects of subjects with programming skills while source code review are required to have certain eye tracking traits like better code coverage, attention span on error lines and comments.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/ETFA.2017.8247637
2017 22nd IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Eye Tracking,Software Engineering,Source Code Review,Source Code Comprehension
Code coverage,Attention span,Source code,Visualization,Software bug,Control engineering,Software,Human–computer interaction,Eye tracking,Engineering,Debugging
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1946-0740
978-1-5090-6506-6
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
K. R. Chandrika100.34
J. Amudha200.34
Sithu D. Sudarsan3207.39