Treffer: Empirical investigation of a non-intrusive approach to study comprehension cognitive models

Title:
Empirical investigation of a non-intrusive approach to study comprehension cognitive models
Authors:
TORCHIANO, Marco
Source:
Eighth European conference on software maintenance and reengineering (24-26 March 2004, Tampere, Finland). :184-192
Publisher Information:
Las Alamitos CA: IEEE Computer Society, 2004.
Publication Year:
2004
Physical Description:
print, 13 ref 1
Original Material:
INIST-CNRS
Subject Terms:
Computer science, Informatique, Sciences exactes et technologie, Exact sciences and technology, Sciences appliquees, Applied sciences, Informatique; automatique theorique; systemes, Computer science; control theory; systems, Logiciel, Software, Génie logiciel, Software engineering, Comportement utilisateur, User behavior, Comportamiento usuario, Documentation, Documentación, Format enregistrement, Record format, Formato grabación, Génie logiciel, Software engineering, Ingeniería informática, Langage HTML, HTML language, Lenguaje HTML, Langage JAVA, JAVA language, Lenguaje JAVA, Maintenance, Mantenimiento, Modélisation, Modeling, Modelización, Métamodèle, Metamodel, Metamodelo, Orienté objet, Object oriented, Orientado objeto, Réutilisation, Reuse, Reutilización, Théorie cognitive, Cognitive theory, Teoría cognitiva, Patron conception, Design pattern, Patrón Concepción
Document Type:
Konferenz Conference Paper
File Description:
text
Language:
English
Author Affiliations:
Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Access URL:
http://pascal-francis.inist.fr/vibad/index.php?action=search&terms=17613040
Rights:
Copyright 2006 INIST-CNRS
CC BY 4.0
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Notes:
Computer science; theoretical automation; systems
Accession Number:
edscal.17613040
Database:
PASCAL Archive

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Usually software is maintained by people different from those who developed it. In this context the maintenance activities are dominated by the comprehension effort. The study of the cognitive processes behind comprehension usually involves intrusive approaches. In this paper we present a non-intrusive approach to study the cognitive process that is based on the observation of how a maintainer uses the documentation. A simplified observational model is proposed to link the records of the documentation usage to the cognitive process. We focused on object-oriented programs written in Java, and used design patterns to make them well structured. The standard HTML based Javadoc documentation format allowed to record the use of the documentation easily. We conducted an experiment to validate the observational model and to investigate if the type of documentation affects the cognitive process. The proposed cognitive model was able to weakly discriminate among two simple cognitive processes. In addition it revealed that the type of documentation affected the cognitive process.