2 papers
cs.SE2026
Do Developers Read Type Information? An Eye-Tracking Study on TypeScript
Samuel W. Flint, Robert Dyer, Bonita Sharif
Statically-annotated types have been shown to aid developers in a number of programming tasks, and this benefit holds true even when static type checking is not used. It is hypothe…
cs.SE2025
An Exploratory Eye Tracking Study on How Developers Classify and Debug Python Code in Different Paradigms
Samuel W. Flint, Jigyasa Chauhan, Niloofar Mansoor +2
Modern programming languages, such as Python, support language features from several paradigms, such as object-oriented, procedural, and functional. Research has shown that code wr…