Criticisms of An Empirical Study of Recursionand
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The importance of empirical studies in software engineering cannot be under-stated. Care must be taken, however, that the experimental methods employed are appropriate and that they are executed with due scientiic rigour. A critical commentary is presented of a paper by Sinha and Vessey 6] which attempted empirical evaluations of a number of propositions concerned with the notion of cognitive t (i.e. the notion that problem solving can be facilitated by use of appropriate representations and tools.) There are concerns about the scale, nature, and representation of the experimental tasks. The entire experiment relies on the concept of a naturally recursive task. There are also concerns about the lack of information about the subjects and their use of the programming environments. Some criticisms are also presented of the analysis of the results and the discussion. It is concluded that the interpretations given in 6] carry no weight.
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