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Studying programmer behaviour at scale : a case study using Amazon Mechanical Turk
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dc.contributor.author | Jacques, Jason T. | |
dc.contributor.author | Kristensson, Per Ola | |
dc.contributor.editor | Church, Luke | |
dc.contributor.editor | Chiba, Shigeru | |
dc.contributor.editor | Boix, Elisa Gonzalez | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-10-06T09:30:08Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-10-06T09:30:08Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-03-22 | |
dc.identifier | 281308905 | |
dc.identifier | 33255781-0458-462c-af30-089ceb9716c5 | |
dc.identifier | 85113847225 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Jacques , J T & Kristensson , P O 2021 , Studying programmer behaviour at scale : a case study using Amazon Mechanical Turk . in L Church , S Chiba & E G Boix (eds) , Programming '21 : companion proceedings of the 5 th International conference on the art, science, and engineering of programming . ACM , pp. 36-48 , 5th International Conference on the Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming, Programming 2021 , Virtual, Online , United Kingdom , 22/03/21 . https://doi.org/10.1145/3464432.3464436 | en |
dc.identifier.citation | conference | en |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9781450389860 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0003-3496-7060/work/120849431 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/26145 | |
dc.description | Funding: This work was funded by an EPSRC studentship and EPSRC grant EP/R004471/1. Data available at https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.66593. | en |
dc.description.abstract | Developing and maintaining a correct and consistent model of how code will be executed is an ongoing challenge for software developers. However, validating the tools and techniques we develop to aid programmers can be a challenge plagued by small sample sizes, high costs, or poor generalisability. This paper serves as a case study using a web-based crowdsourcing approach to study programmer behaviour at scale. We demonstrate this method to create controlled coding experiments at modest cost, highlight the efficacy of this approach with objective validation, and comment on notable findings from our prototype experiment into one of the most ubiquitous, yet understudied, features of modern software development environments: syntax highlighting. | |
dc.format.extent | 13 | |
dc.format.extent | 852476 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | ACM | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Programming '21 | en |
dc.subject | Behaviour | en |
dc.subject | Crowdsourcing | en |
dc.subject | Programming | en |
dc.subject | QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science | en |
dc.subject | QA76 Computer software | en |
dc.subject | Computer Networks and Communications | en |
dc.subject | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition | en |
dc.subject | Human-Computer Interaction | en |
dc.subject | Software | en |
dc.subject | DAS | en |
dc.subject | NIS | en |
dc.subject | MCC | en |
dc.subject.lcc | QA75 | en |
dc.subject.lcc | QA76 | en |
dc.title | Studying programmer behaviour at scale : a case study using Amazon Mechanical Turk | en |
dc.type | Conference item | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of Computer Science | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1145/3464432.3464436 | |
dc.identifier.url | https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3464432 | en |
dc.identifier.url | https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/322069 | en |
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