Developers attentiveness to example usage
Ohad Barzilay, Amiram Yehudai, Orit Hazzan · 2010
As part of our research on the use of code examples in professional programming, we focus on the developer's awareness and attentiveness to example usage. We identify three types of lack of attentiveness: lack of awareness that causes professional developers to use examples only in certain contexts but not in others, lack of attentiveness to examples of different scales, and lack of attentiveness to the variety of purposes examples may serve. We present a qualitative research followed by a focus group case study that illustrate our findings.