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title: Vorleistung

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# Vorleistung
This is the paper for the 'Vorleistung' in  Forschungsmethoden der Softwaretechnik , winter term 2020/2021.

Group members:
- Oliver Ferch
- Max Hausch
- Lukas Heiland
- Alexander Voelker
- Michael Voessner

Requirements for the paper:
- double column
- least 8 pages
- deadline 14.02.21

Ideas for tasks:
- a few code examples with different amounts of comments
- stop the time taken with git commit timestamps
- programming language: java
- code examples are "classical coding exercises"
- see if people find bugs
- ~~trick participants with "wrong comments"~~

We chose:
- java
- 3 code examples
- algorithms: 


Rough planning:

0 abstract
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- summarize the whole paper

1 introduction
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- history of comments/ explanation/definition of comments in code
- comments specifics in java
- what are we doing and why
- research question
- hypothesis
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2 related work
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- current "state" of comments
- one positive source
- one negative source
- mention of "code comment smells"/outdated comments
- maybe studies...
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3 study design
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- 3 code examples
- website
- letter of consent / disclaimer
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4 evaluation
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- questionnary design
- how do we analyze
- maybe some formulas?
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5 results
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- many graphs hopefully
- interpret results from point 4
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6 discussion
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- summarize all other parts
- corona
- excuses
- refer to the second point
- what could have been done better
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assignments
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- 1 and 2: alex
- 3:
    - website: lukas
    - questionnaire and code examples: max
- 4: michael
- 5 and 6: oliver

Paper links
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https://www.ijccr.com/July2013/4.pdf
https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:860477/FULLTEXT01.pdf
http://www.soberit.hut.fi/sems/shared/deliverables_public/mmantyla_thesis_final.pdf
https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:00000000-0a65-5c07-ffff-ffffaee13e79/da_beutler.pdf