Replication package - The Mind Is a Powerful Place: How Showing Code Comprehensibility Metrics Influences Code Understanding

<p>Replication package for:</p> <p>Marvin Wyrich, Andreas Preikschat, Daniel Graziotin and Stefan Wagner. The Mind Is a Powerful Place: How Showing Code Comprehensibility Metrics Influences Code Understanding. To appear in: Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE &rsquo;21), Madrid, Spain.</p> <p>- The `data` folder contains dataset, R analysis script, and figures for the paper<br> - the `material` folder contains the snippets used for the experimental tasks (`code snippets` subfolder), the environment in which participants had to understand the code (`environment` subfolder) and the task sheet form to evaluate code comprehension.</p> <p>The R analysis script allows to reproduce all statistical analysis steps of the paper as well as its figures. We recommend calling `setwd()` before running the script contents, so that the dataset can be properly loaded.</p> <p>For ethics and privacy reasons, we had to drop the following potentially identifying fields from the openly released dataset, because the fields might enable participants to identify their peers:</p> <p>- Age<br> - Gender<br> - Subject (study plan)<br> - Program<br> - Semester no.</p> <p>These missed details will still allow full reproducibility of the study.</p>