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"During software change tasks, developers often read only small portions of relevant code rather than inspecting an entire codebase."

Kevic and colleagues used eye tracking and interaction data to study how 22 developers navigated code during change tasks. Their observations support the distinction between selectively reading the code needed for a task and exhaustively reading the whole system.

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Source title Eye Gaze and Interaction Contexts for Change Tasks - Observations and Potential
Source authors Katja Kevic, Braden M. Walters, Timothy R. Shaffer, Bonita Sharif, David C. Shepherd, Thomas Fritz
Source year 2017
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