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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…
Beyond Self-Promotion: How Software Engineering Research Is Discussed on LinkedIn
Marvin Wyrich, Justus Bogner
LinkedIn is the largest professional network in the world. As such, it can serve to build bridges between practitioners, whose daily work is software engineering (SE), and research…
Resist the Hype! Practical Recommendations to Cope With Résumé-Driven Development
Jonas Fritzsch, Marvin Wyrich, Justus Bogner +1
Technology trends play an important role in the hiring process for software and IT professionals. In a recent study of 591 software professionals in both hiring (130) and technical…
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…
40 Years of Designing Code Comprehension Experiments: A Systematic Mapping Study
Marvin Wyrich, Justus Bogner, Stefan Wagner
The relevance of code comprehension in a developer's daily work was recognized more than 40 years ago. Consequently, many experiments were conducted to find out how developers coul…
Anchoring Code Understandability Evaluations Through Task Descriptions
Marvin Wyrich, Lasse Merz, Daniel Graziotin
In code comprehension experiments, participants are usually told at the beginning what kind of code comprehension task to expect. Describing experiment scenarios and experimental t…
Code Comprehension Confounders: A Study of Intelligence and Personal
Stefan Wagner, Marvin Wyrich
Literature and intuition suggest that a developer's intelligence and personality have an impact on their performance in comprehending source code. Researchers made this suggestion…
Bots Don't Mind Waiting, Do They? Comparing the Interaction With Automatically and Manually Created Pull Requests
Marvin Wyrich, Raoul Ghit, Tobias Haller +1
As a maintainer of an open source software project, you are usually happy about contributions in the form of pull requests that bring the project a step forward. Past studies have…
Résumé-Driven Development: A Definition and Empirical Characterization
Jonas Fritzsch, Marvin Wyrich, Justus Bogner +1
Technologies play an important role in the hiring process for software professionals. Within this process, several studies revealed misconceptions and bad practices which lead to s…
The Mind Is a Powerful Place: How Showing Code Comprehensibility Metrics Influences Code Understanding
Marvin Wyrich, Andreas Preikschat, Daniel Graziotin +1
Static code analysis tools and integrated development environments present developers with quality-related software metrics, some of which describe the understandability of source…
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.…
Perception and Acceptance of an Autonomous Refactoring Bot
Marvin Wyrich, Regina Hebig, Stefan Wagner +1
The use of autonomous bots for automatic support in software development tasks is increasing. In the past, however, they were not always perceived positively and sometimes experien…
Improving Communication in Scrum Teams
Marvin Wyrich, Ivan Bogicevic, Stefan Wagner
Communication in teams is an important but difficult issue. In a Scrum development process, we use the Daily Scrum meetings to inform others about important problems, news and even…