Programmer User Studies: Supporting Tools & Features

User studies are paramount for advancing science. In particular, the empirical evaluation of programmer-oriented tools is important to validate research ideas and prototypes, as well as production-ready tools. Previous research has collected several tools used by the software engineering and behavio...

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Published inProceedings (IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing) pp. 163 - 167
Main Authors Costa, Lazaro, Barbosa, Susana, Cunha, Jacome
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 02.09.2024
Subjects
Behavioral sciences
Empirical Evaluation Tools
Empirical Software Engineering
Packaging
Prototypes
Software
Software engineering
Visualization
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Summary:User studies are paramount for advancing science. In particular, the empirical evaluation of programmer-oriented tools is important to validate research ideas and prototypes, as well as production-ready tools. Previous research has collected several tools used by the software engineering and behavioral science communities to design and run studies. In this work, we study tools used in software engineering studies and identify their features. Furthermore, we analyze three behavioral science experiment tools to identify design ideas that might be adapted to programmer user studies. With this work, we present the set of features currently offered by software engineering tools to support researchers in the design and execution of programmer user studies. We also present the characteristics of some tools used in behavioral science experiments to identify design ideas that can be adapted to programmer user studies.
ISSN:1943-6106
DOI:10.1109/VL/HCC60511.2024.00026