KitchenhamEtAl.CorrelationsAmongParticipants.Ricca10TSE: KitchenhamEtAl.CorrelationsAmongParticipants.Ricca10TSE data

KitchenhamEtAl.CorrelationsAmongParticipants.Ricca10TSER Documentation

KitchenhamEtAl.CorrelationsAmongParticipants.Ricca10TSE data

Description

Data illustrate correlations between results from individual participants in a family of four cross-over experiments conducted by Ricca et al.: [1] F. Ricca, M. D. Penta, M. Torchiano, P. Tonella, and M. Ceccato 'How developers’ experience and ability influence web application comprehension tasks supported by uml stereotypes: A series of four experiments', IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 96-118, 2010. Although we present the full data set, only the first two experiments were used in the correlation study, because many of the observations in the final two studies were unpaired. The experiments assess whether participants performance comprehension tasks better when using source code complemented by standard UML diagrams (UML) or by diagrams stereotyped using the Conallen notation (Conallen). If you use this data set please cite: [1] F. Ricca, M. D. Penta, M. Torchiano, P. Tonella, and M. Ceccato 'How developers’ experience and ability influence web application comprehension tasks supported by uml stereotypes: A series of four experiments', IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 96—118, 2010. [2] Barbara Kitchenham, Lech Madeyski, Giuseppe Scanniello and Carmine Gravino, 'The Importance of the Correlation between Results from Individual Participants in Crossover Experiments' (to be submitted as of 2020).

Usage

KitchenhamEtAl.CorrelationsAmongParticipants.Ricca10TSE

Format

A data frame with 176 rows and 10 variables:

ExperimentID

<fct>|ExperimentID: A unique identifier for each of the four experiments in the data set.

ParticipantID

<fct>|Participant ID: An identifier for each participant, unique for a specific experiment.

SequenceGroup

<fct>|Experimental Sequence Group: A , B , C, D

System

<fct>|Software systems used in the experiment: Two Java-based Web applications, Claros and WfMS

Period

<fct>|Time period of the cross-over experiment: 1 or 2

Treatment

<fct>|Experimental Treatment: UML or Conallon

FMeasure

<dbl>|Dependent variable: The comprehension level achieved by the participant.

Time

<dbl>|Dependent variable: The time [min] to complete the experimental task

CrossOverID

<fct>|CrossOver category: For 4 group crossover designs, the crossover category specifies the matching pairs of sequence groups, CO1 and CO2. For 2 group crossover, the category is set to CO1 only

Ability

<fct>| h: High l: Low, NA: Not available

Experience

<fct>| G: Master students, U: undergraduates, P: researchers

Examples

KitchenhamEtAl.CorrelationsAmongParticipants.Ricca10TSE


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