OPENING STATEMENT
You are being invited to participate in a research study that explores the effort developers put into understanding the content of the automatically generated test suite.
The purpose of this research study is to explore if different kinds of automatically generated test suites affect developers’ performance on program comprehension tasks. This study will take you approximately 30 minutes to complete. The anonymised data will be used for a master’s thesis project. We will be asking you to read multiple test suites, and answer related questions.
As with any online activity, the risk of a breach is always possible. To the best of our ability, your answers in this study will remain confidential. We will minimize any risks.
- Until the end of the survey, the data is stored in Alchemer EU Data Center. Alchemer protects the respondents' data and allows for its complete deletion. After the survey, the data is going to be deleted from Alchemer servers and transferred to an internal server at the Delft University of Technology. This means all data is protected by strict privacy laws. All the data are used for research purposes only; the data will not be, in any circumstances, sold or shared to third parties.
- The only directly identifiable PPI (Personally Identifiable Information) that will be collected in this survey is the email address you provide at the end of the survey. The purpose of collecting the email address is for reward distribution, and all email addresses will be deleted once the project is completed. The email address data will only be accessible to the research team.
- Only anonymised or aggregated information (questionnaire responses) will be made publicly available as part of the thesis project. All data will be uploaded to 4TU.ResearchData with public access for the purpose of FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Re-usable).
Your participation in this study is entirely voluntary
and you can withdraw at any time. The email address data will be immediately deleted after the project ends, and the anonymous survey responses will be uploaded to 4TU.ResearchData with public access.
If you have any questions, please contact
L.Lin-11@student.tudelft.nl. If you agree to this opening statement, you could participate in this study by clicking the button below and moving to the next page. Remember, your participation is completely voluntary, and you’re free to withdraw from the study at any time.
Thank you for considering participating in this research study.