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20202026
most citedAn Empirical Validation of Cognitive Complexity as a Measure of Source Code Understandability

61 citations · 72 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.SE2026

Evaluating the Impact of Explainable AI on Trust in AI-Assisted Code Review

Zhenhan Gao, Marvin Muñoz Barón, Umm-e Habiba +2

Background: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to automate code review, but the reasoning behind their decisions remains hard to understand. Developers struggle to…

cs.SE2025★ 3 cited

Guidelines for Empirical Studies in Software Engineering involving Large Language Models

Sebastian Baltes, Florian Angermeir, Chetan Arora +19

Large Language Models (LLMs) are widely used in software engineering (SE) research and practice, yet their non-determinism, opaque training data, and rapidly evolving models threat…

cs.SE2024★ 3 cited

Towards Evaluation Guidelines for Empirical Studies involving LLMs

Stefan Wagner, Marvin Muñoz Barón, Davide Falessi +1

In the short period since the release of ChatGPT, large language models (LLMs) have changed the software engineering research landscape. While there are numerous opportunities to u…

cs.SE2024★ 1 cited

Apples, Oranges, and Software Engineering: Study Selection Challenges for Secondary Research on Latent Variables

Marvin Wyrich, Marvin Muñoz Barón, Justus Bogner

Software engineering (SE) is full of abstract concepts that are crucial for both researchers and practitioners, such as programming experience, team productivity, code comprehensio…

cs.SE2023★ 4 cited

Evidence Profiles for Validity Threats in Program Comprehension Experiments

Marvin Muñoz Barón, Marvin Wyrich, Daniel Graziotin +1

Searching for clues, gathering evidence, and reviewing case files are all techniques used by criminal investigators to draw sound conclusions and avoid wrongful convictions. Simila…

cs.SE2020★ 61 cited

An Empirical Validation of Cognitive Complexity as a Measure of Source Code Understandability

Marvin Muñoz Barón, Marvin Wyrich, Stefan Wagner

Background: Developers spend a lot of their time on understanding source code. Static code analysis tools can draw attention to code that is difficult for developers to understand.…