Context

: The study of cognitive aspects around software activities can provide valuable insights to improve software engineering practices. Objective: This paper presents an approach based on distributed cognition and sequential analysis to explore cognitive activities in the software development context by analyzing the interactions between software practitioners and the resources used to support them. Method: We conducted nine laboratory-based observation sessions to record qualitative audio/video data of interactions between the study participants and at-hand resources during the planning and managing of software analytics tasks. Results: The interaction strategies of the resources model included 21 emergent actions, and the sequential analysis revealed two different patterns of interaction over time. Conclusion: Our approach has been useful for evaluating how well an artifact works to support a team in software analytics activities. Furthermore, it can be applied to explore and discover interaction patterns in different software activities.

中文翻译：

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一种探索软件工程认知活动中顺序交互的方法

语境

：围绕软件活动的认知方面的研究可以为改进软件工程实践提供有价值的见解。目标：本文提出了一种基于分布式认知和顺序分析的方法，通过分析软件从业者和用于支持他们的资源之间的交互来探索软件开发环境中的认知活动。方法：我们进行了九次基于实验室的观察会议，以记录在软件分析任务的规划和管理期间研究参与者与现有资源之间交互的定性音频/视频数据。结果：资源模型的交互策略包括 21 个紧急动作，序列分析揭示了随着时间的推移两种不同的交互模式。结论：我们的方法对于评估工件在软件分析活动中支持团队的工作效果非常有用。此外，它还可以用于探索和发现不同软件活动中的交互模式。