کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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434306 | 1441700 | 2013 | 20 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
This paper presents difficulties illustrated by software development practitioners with regard to the use and understanding of concepts and principles of the object-oriented paradigm. In order to understand these difficulties and the sources from which they stem, a theoretical framework borrowed from cognitive psychology, called the dual-process theory, was used. The empirical findings, collected using tools based on the qualitative research approach and analyzed through the lens of the dual-process theory, suggest that a tension between intuitive and logical thinking modes may lead to simple mistakes software engineers exhibit when practicing object-oriented analysis and design (OOA/D). Examining the understanding of OOA/D from this perspective helps explain some of the previously documented, as well as some newly identified difficulties in learning and practicing OOA/D, as well as guide the design of future quantitative experiments to understand how prevalent these phenomena are.
► Software designers experience difficulties in basic object-oriented (OO) concepts.
► They make mistakes that contradict knowledge they evidently hold.
► A tension between intuitive and logical thinking modes may cause such mistakes.
► Surface clues, misguiding the thought process and causing tension, were identified.
► This explains, and may help overcome, difficulties in learning and practicing OO.
Journal: Science of Computer Programming - Volume 78, Issue 9, 1 September 2013, Pages 1407–1426