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Software engineering

the smallest code patterns that reliably cause programmers to misread what code does, identified through controlled experiments.

In software engineering, atoms of confusion refers to the smallest code patterns that reliably cause programmers to misread what code does, identified through controlled experiments. This meaning comes from Gopstein (2017) in Proceedings of the 2017 11th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering.[1]

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Gopstein, D., Iannacone, J., Yan, Y., DeLong, L., Zhuang, Y., Yeh, M. K. -., & Cappos, J. (2017). Understanding misunderstandings in source code. Proceedings of the 2017 11th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1145/3106237.3106264

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