Program Comprehension and Code Complexity Metrics: A Replication Package of an fMRI Study

摘要

In this artifact, we document our publicly shared data set of our functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study on programmers. We have conducted an fMRI study with 19 participants observing program comprehension of short code snippets at varying complexity levels [1] . We dissected four classes of code complexity metrics and their relationship to neuronal, behavioral, and subjective correlates of program comprehension. Our data corroborate that complexity metrics can—to a limited degree—explain programmers’ cognition in program comprehension.