A practical guide to controlled experiments of software engineering tools with human participants

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Lost at C: A User Study on the Security Implications of Large Language Model Code Assistants (2022, methodology): “[45] note that university students can be appropriate participants when their knowledge and skills fit the one for the target audience.”
Recruiting Participants With Programming Skills: A Comparison of Four Crowdsourcing Platforms and a CS Student Mailing List (2022, background): “In summary, a limitation and critique of empirical studies with developers are often finding the right population and validity of the results [31].”