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Oct, 2007

Exploiting Eye Movements for Evaluating Reviewer's Performance in Software Review

IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals
  • Hidetake Uwano
  • ,
  • Masahide Nakamura
  • ,
  • Akito Monden
  • ,
  • Ken-ichi Matsumoto

Volume
E90-A
Number
10
First page
317
Last page
328
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI
10.1093/ietfec/e90-a.10.2290
Publisher
The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers

This paper proposes to use eye movements to characterize the performance of individuals in reviewing software documents. We design and implement a system called DRESREM, which measures and records eye movements of document reviewers. Based on the eye movements captured by eye tracking device, the system computes the line number of the document that the reviewer is currently looking at. The system can also record and play back how the eyes moved during the review process. To evaluate the effectiveness of the system we conducted an experiment to analyze 30 processes of source code review (6 programs, 5 subjects) using the system. As a result, we have identified a particular pattern, called scan, in the subject's eye movements. Quantitative analysis showed that reviewers who did not spend enough time on the scan took more time to find defects on average.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/ietfec/e90-a.10.2290
CiNii Articles
http://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/110007540905
CiNii Books
http://ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/AA10826239
URL
http://www27.cs.kobe-u.ac.jp/achieve/data/pdf/282.pdf
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  • DOI : 10.1093/ietfec/e90-a.10.2290
  • ISSN : 0916-8508
  • CiNii Articles ID : 110007540905
  • CiNii Books ID : AA10826239

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