Are Students Representatives of Professionals in Software Engineering Experiments?

By Iflaah Salman, Ayse Tosun Misirli, Natalia Juristo Juzgado. 2015

349 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Computer Science Applications, Information Systems, Software Engineering

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Computer Science Applications

1. Mohammad Tahaei
2. Kami Vaniea

In Information Systems

1. Siddharth Garg
2. Ramesh Karri
3. Hammond A. Pearce
4. Mohammad Tahaei
5. Brendan Dolan-Gavitt
6. Kami Vaniea

In Software Engineering

1. Mohammad Tahaei
2. Brendan Dolan-Gavitt
3. Siddharth Garg
4. Ramesh Karri
5. Gustavo Sandoval
6. Teo Nys
7. Kami Vaniea
8. Hammond A. Pearce

Citations in the corpus

• Lost at C: A User Study on the Security Implications of Large Language Model Code Assistants (2022, background): “[46] found that students and professionals do similarly on various code quality metrics.”
• Recruiting Participants With Programming Skills: A Comparison of Four Crowdsourcing Platforms and a CS Student Mailing List (2022, background): “Computer science (CS) students have also been a long standing population for such studies, however, the discussions about the external validity of results involving this population have a long history as well [15, 17, 31, 40, 51, 61].”