Dataset for "Too Simple? Notions of Task Complexity used in Maintenance-based Studies of Programming Tools"

This dataset contains the data to replicate the findings in the publication "Too Simple? Notions of Task Complexity used in Maintenance-based Studies of Programming Tools". The dataset includes the bibliographies and intermediate analysis tables for the analyzed literature. Further, it contains the experiment materials providing context for the task discussed in Section V of the publication.

The artifact contains the following files:

icpc-from-survey.bib: The bibliographic entries of all publications selected from the corpus of the paper "Confounding parameters on program comprehension: a literature survey" by Janet Siegmund and Jana Schumann (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-014-9318-8)

icpc-manually-added.bib: The bibliographic entries of manually added publications.

icpc-phase-2-and-3.[csv|xlsx]: The intermediate analysis tables for phases 2 and 3 as described in the paper. The table also contains columns transferred from the original dataset of the Siegmund and Schumann study (marked as "transferred")

experiment-materials.zip: Includes the materials for the experiment used in Section V

introduction-english.[docx|rtf]: The experiment protocol we read to participants, including the introduction to the system architecture.

JumpODrom.package.zip: The code of the used system.

task-16-description.txt: The textual description of the task discussed in Section V.

task-16.patch: The change applied to the system code prior to the task, which causes the faulty behavior outlined in the task description.