Micro process analysis of eye movement during fault detection in software review

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24700038
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Software
• Research Institution: Nara National College of Technology
• Principal Investigator: Uwano Hidetake 奈良工業高等専門学校, その他部局等, 講師 (70550094)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 不具合検出 / マイクロプロセス / 視線計測 / 脳血流計測

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this research is to clarify the knowledge that improves software review performance. In the research period, 1) analysis of program reading process with eye movement recording and, 2) analysis of brain activity during program comprehension is performed. I defined the order of document reading at source code review based on expert’s activity. The result of the research shows that fault detection rate of subjects’ group who were instructed the reading order is significantly higher than the non-instructed group. Also the result of an experiment that analyze programmers’ brain activity with NIRS shows that memorization of a few variables and simple mental calculation have no significant effect to brain activity; on the other hand, understanding of conditional branching activate the brain activity.

Free Research Field

ソフトウェア工学