ICPC 2019
Sat 25 - Sun 26 May 2019 Montreal, QC, Canada
co-located with ICSE 2019
Sat 25 May 2019 16:30 - 16:50 at Laurier - Session V: Refactoring in Style Chair(s): Shinpei Hayashi

An early study showed that indentation is not a matter of style, but provides actual support for program comprehension. In this paper, we present a non-exact replication of this study. Our aim is to provide empirical evidence for the suggested level of indentation made by many style guides. Following Miara and others, we also included the perceived difficulty, and we extended the original design to gain additional insights into the influence of indentation on visual effort by employing an eye tracker. In the course of our study, we asked 22 participants to calculate the output of Java code snippets with different levels of indentation, while we recorded their gaze behavior. We did not find any indication that the indentation levels affect program comprehension or visual effort, so we could not replicate the findings of Miara and others. Nevertheless, our modernization of the original experiment design is a promising starting point for future studies in this field.

Sat 25 May

Displayed time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) change

16:30 - 17:20
Session V: Refactoring in StyleICPC 2019 Replications / ICPC 2019 Technical Research at Laurier
Chair(s): Shinpei Hayashi Tokyo Institute of Technology
16:30
20m
Full-paper
Indentation: Simply a Matter of Style or Support for Program Comprehension?
ICPC 2019 Replications
Jennifer Bauer , Janet Siegmund , Norman Peitek Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Johannes Hofmeister , Sven Apel Saarland University
Pre-print
16:50
10m
Short-paper
Towards Automated Testing of Blockchain-based Decentralized Applications
ICPC 2019 Technical Research
Jianbo Gao Peking University, Han Liu Tsinghua University, Zhiqiang Yang Tsinghua University, Chao Liu , Qingshan Li Peking University, Zhi Guan Peking University, Zhong Chen
17:00
20m
Full-paper
Does BLEU Score Work for Code Migration?
ICPC 2019 Technical Research
Ngoc Tran , Hieu Tran The University of Texas at Dallas, Son Nguyen The University of Texas at Dallas, Hoan Anh Nguyen Amazon, Tien N. Nguyen University of Texas at Dallas