251. EYE MOVEMENTS CHARACTERIZING FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF EXPERTISE IN SOURCE CODE READING
INTRODUCTION
Expertise is an important criterion for programmers that contributes mainly on how they perform the programming related tasks. However, years of programming experience is not the only measure that is related to expertise (Feigenspan et al., 2012). Researchers have shown that expertise reflects the performance on how programmers perform and not necessarily how long they have trained (Shanteau, 1992). This new understanding of expertise would open the door to adopting new...