Beauty and the Beast--Toward a Measurement Framework for Example Program Quality
Jürgen Börstler, Michael E. Caspersen, Marie Nordström · 2007
Examples are important tools for programming education. In this paper, we investi-gate desirable properties of programming examples from a cognitive and a measure-ment point of view. We argue that some cognitive aspects of example programs are “caught” by common software measures, but they are not sufficient to capture all im-portant aspects of understandability. We propose a framework for measuring the un-derstandability of example programs that also considers factors related to the usage context of examples.