@INPROCEEDINGS{Sharafi12-ICPC-MenWomen,
   AUTHOR       = {Zohreh Sharafi and Z�phyrin Soh and Yann-Ga�l Gu�h�neuc and 
      Giuliano Antoniol},
   BOOKTITLE    = {Proceedings of the 20<sup>th</sup> International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC)},
   TITLE        = {Women & Men -- Different but Equal: On the Impact of 
      Identifier Style on Source Code Reading},
   YEAR         = {2012},
   OPTADDRESS   = {},
   OPTCROSSREF  = {},
   EDITOR       = {van Deursen, Arie and Michael W. Godfrey},
   MONTH        = {June},
   NOTE         = {10 pages.},
   OPTNUMBER    = {},
   OPTORGANIZATION = {},
   PAGES        = {27--36},
   PUBLISHER    = {IEEE CS Press},
   OPTSERIES    = {},
   OPTVOLUME    = {},
   KEYWORDS     = {Topic: <b>Program comprehension</b>, Venue: <c>ICPC</c>},
   URL          = {http://www.ptidej.net/publications/documents/ICPC12b.doc.pdf},
   PDF          = {http://www.ptidej.net/publications/documents/ICPC12b.ppt.pdf},
   ABSTRACT     = {Program comprehension is preliminary to any program 
      evolution task. Researchers agree that identifiers play an important 
      role in code reading and program understanding activities. Yet, to 
      the best of our knowledge, only one work investigated the impact of 
      gender on the memorability of identifiers and thus, ultimately, on 
      program comprehension. This paper reports the results of an 
      experiment involving 15 male subjects and nine female subjects to 
      study the impact of gender on the subjects' visual effort, required 
      time, as well as accuracy to recall Camel Case versus Underscore 
      identifiers in source code reading. We observe no 
      statistically-significant difference in term of accuracy, required 
      time, and effort. However, our data supports the conjecture that male 
      and female subjects follow different comprehension strategies: female 
      subjects seem to carefully weight all options and spend more time to 
      rule out wrong answers while male subjects seem to quickly set their 
      minds on some answers, possibly the wrong ones. Indeed, we found that 
      the effort spent on wrong answers is significantly higher for female 
      subjects and that there is an interaction between the effort that 
      female subjects invested on wrong answers and their higher 
      percentages of correct answers when compared to male subjects.}
}

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