@book{ea0b19debff246629e56f2904151fdeb,
title = "Programmers Performance on Structured versus Nonstructured Function Definitions",
abstract = "A control-flow model for functional programs is used in an experimental comparison of the performance of programmers on structured versus nonstructured Miranda function definitions. The experimental set-up is similar to the Scanlan study (1989). However, in the present study, a two-factor repeated measures design is used in the statistical analysis. The control-flow model appears to be useful in the shaping of the experiment. A significantly better performance has been found for structured function definitions on both dependent variables: the time needed to answer questions about the function definitions and the propor-tion correct answers. Moreover, for structured function definitions, a counter-intuitive result has been obtained: there are significantly fewer errors in larger definitions than in smaller ones.",
keywords = "SE-SMM: Software Measurement and Metrics, Comprehensibility, Structured programming, Software metric, Functional programming",
author = "\{van den Berg\}, K. and \{van den Broek\}, P.M.",
year = "1995",
month = feb,
language = "English",
series = "Memoranda informatica",
publisher = "University of Twente",
number = "95-11",
address = "Netherlands",
}