An eye tracking study assessing source code readability rules for program comprehension
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Logical correctness does not impact total review time, but following a readability rule (minimise nesting) decreases the duration of fixations when reviewing code.
“Park et al. [14] conducted an eye tracking study on code comprehension and found that logical correctness does not impact the total review time, but following a readability rule (minimise nesting) decreases the duration of fixations when reviewing the code.”
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Same Scrutiny, More Time: Eye Tracking Insights into Reviewing LLM-Labelled Code
Khojah, R., Gomes de Oliveira Neto, F., Mohamad, M., Frattini, J., & Leitner, P. (2026) · Proceedings of the 41st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering · doi:10.1145/3832783.3834423
- Authors
- Park, K.-I., Johnson, J., Peterson, C. S., Yedla, N., Baysinger, I., Aponte, J., & Sharif, B.
- Affiliations
- University of Nebraska–Lincoln (US)
- University of Minnesota (US)
- Youngstown State University (US)
- Universidad Nacional de Colombia (CO)
- Corresponding author
- Sharif, Bonita
- Venue
- Empirical Software Engineering
- Published
- 2024-10-05
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 6
- ISSN
- 1382-3256 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-7616
- OpenAlex
- W4403155852
- Cited by
- 9
- References
- 3
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 3
- FWCI
- 2.38
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- Empirical Software Engineering (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (CCF 18-55756, 18-55753)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Software Engineering Research
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Software Engineering Techniques and Practices
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Gaze Tracking and Assistive Technology
- Keywords
- code readability, program comprehension, eye tracking, do-while loop, visual effort, Java methods, fixation, bug detection, developer behavior, replication study
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