A practical guide on conducting eye tracking studies in software engineering

• Published in: Empirical software engineering : an international journal Vol. 25; no. 5; pp. 3128 - 3174
• Main Authors: Sharafi, Zohreh, Sharif, Bonita, Guéhéneuc, Yann-Gaël, Begel, Andrew, Bednarik, Roman, Crosby, Martha
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.09.2020; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Compilers; Computer Science; Design of experiments; Design standards; Engineering research; Experience Reports; Eye movements; Interpreters; Programming Languages; Researchers; Software engineering; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems; Statistical analysis; Tracking; Program comprehension; Empirical software engineering; Practical guide; Eye tracking

For several years, the software engineering research community used eye trackers to study program comprehension, bug localization, pair programming, and other software engineering tasks. Eye trackers provide researchers with insights on software engineers’ cognitive processes, data that can augment...