Exploring Common Code Reading Strategies in Debugging

• Main Author: Tablatin, Christine Lourrine S
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2019
• Subjects: Eye tracking; debugging code reading patterns; sequential analysis; code reading strategies; Computer Sciences
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/quality-education/4; http://ilt.nutn.edu.tw/icce2019/04_Proceedings.html
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Code reading is a prerequisite of program comprehension which is a fundamental task in software development. Strategies employed on code reading affect the programmer’s success rate of understanding tasks such as debugging. However, there is still limited knowledge about the code reading strategies...