Abstract Context: Modern Code Review (MCR) is a widely known practice of software quality
assurance. However, the existing body of knowledge of MCR is currently not understood as …

In the past decade, brain and autonomic nervous system activity measurement received
increasing attention in the study of software engineering (SE). This paper presents a …

Most modern software programs cannot be understood in their entirety by a single
programmer. Instead, programmers must rely on a set of cognitive processes that aid in …

Background: Researchers and practitioners have been using code complexity metrics for
decades to predict how developers comprehend a program. While it is plausible and …

Program comprehension is an important, but hard to measure cognitive process. This makes
it difficult to provide suitable programming languages, tools, or coding conventions to …

Despite the importance of programming to modern society, the cognitive and neural bases of
code comprehension are largely unknown. Programming languages might …

Software engineering involves writing new code or editing existing code. Recent efforts have
investigated the neural processes associated with reading and comprehending code …

Code review is an essential practice in software engineering to spot code defects in the
early stages of software development. Modern code reviews (eg, acceptance or rejection of …

Background Researchers have recently started to validate decades-old program-
comprehension models using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). While fMRI …

Understanding how developers carry out different computer science activities with objective
measures can help to improve productivity and guide the use and development of …