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A Large Scale Survey of Motivation in Software Development and Analysis of its Validity
Idan Amit, Dror G. Feitelson
Context: Motivation is known to improve performance. In software development in particular, there has been considerable interest in the motivation of contributors to open source. O…
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Reproducing, Extending, and Analyzing Naming Experiments
Rachel Alpern, Ido Lazer, Issar Tzachor +3
Naming is very important in software development, as names are often the only vehicle of meaning about what the code is intended to do. A recent study on how developers choose name…
cs.SE2024
The Paradox of Function Header Comments
Arthur Oxenhorn, Almog Mor, Uri Stern +1
Perhaps the most widely used form of code documentation is function header comments. We performed a large-scale survey of 367 developers to catalog their expectations from such doc…