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The Role of Method Chains and Comments in Software Readability and Comprehension—An Experiment

Jurgen Borstler, Barbara Paech

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2016. DOI 10.1109/tse.2016.2527791

Has this study been replicated?

The atlas records 1 replication of this study. Recorded outcomes: 1 failed. The earliest on record is from 2024.

Replications

• Replication of a Study about the Impact of Method Chaining and Comments on Readability and Comprehension, Sampaio & Sampaio (2024). 2024 4th International Conference on Code Quality (ICCQ). Outcome recorded: failed. The original study did find a significant difference for comments variants. In the case of comprehension, we found no significant differences between the method chaining variants but found a sig- nificant difference for an α = 0.1% among comments variants, both as opposed to the original study. Outcome read from the abstract. View paper

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Borstler, J., & Paech, B. (2016). The Role of Method Chains and Comments in Software Readability and Comprehension—An Experiment. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 42(9), 886–898. https://doi.org/10.1109/tse.2016.2527791

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