Creating a cognitive metric of programming task difficulty

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 29-32

  De Alwis, Brian ^a   Murphy, Gail C ^a   Minto, Shawn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

cognitive metrics; experimentation; task difficulty

Indexed keywords

CHANGE TASKS; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; GRAPH-THEORETIC; MULTIPLE TASKS; PROGRAMMING ACTIVITIES; PROGRAMMING TASKS; SOFTWARE CHANGE; SOFTWARE EXPLORATION TOOLS; SOLUTION ELEMENT; TASK DIFFICULTY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; GRAPH THEORY;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 77953597374     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1370114.1370122     Document Type: Conference Paper

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