Scalable Program Comprehension for Analyzing Complex Defects

Programmers who are blind use a screen reader to speak source code one word at a time, as though the code were text. For example, "float f = 5.23;" can be read as "float f equals five point two three semicolon". This process of reading is in stark ...

Research in program comprehension has evolved considerably over the past decades. However, only little is known about how developers practice program comprehension in their daily work. This article reports on qualitative and quantitative research to ...

This paper investigates the impact of dyslexia on the reading and comprehension of computer program code. Drawing upon work from the fields of program comprehension, eye tracking, dyslexia, models of reading and dyslexia gaze behaviour, a set of ...