Post-experience survey on your experience with the first PQL

Try to describe how you perceived the usability and expressiveness of the FIRST program query language that you experimented with.

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Question 1: Which was the FIRST program query language that was assigned to you in this study?

(In other words, for which programming language are you answering this questionnaire?)

AST

RegEx

Pyttern

Prolog

Question 2: I think that I would like to use this program query language frequently.

I strongly disagree

I disagree

I am neutral

I agree

I strongly agree

Question 3: I found this program query language unnecessarily complex.

I strongly disagree

I disagree

I am neutral

I agree

I strongly agree

Question 4: I thought this program query language was easy to use.

I strongly disagree

I disagree

I am neutral

I agree

I strongly agree

Question 5: I think that I would need the support of a technical person to be able to use this program query language.

I strongly disagree

I disagree

I am neutral

I agree

I strongly agree

Question 6: I found the various features of this program query language were well integrated.

I strongly disagree

I disagree

I am neutral

I agree

I strongly agree

Question 7: I thought there was too much inconsistency in this this program query language.

I strongly disagree

I disagree

I am neutral

I agree

I strongly agree

Question 8: I would imagine that most people would learn to use this program query language very quickly.

I strongly disagree

I disagree

I am neutral

I agree

I strongly agree

Question 9: I found this program query language very cumbersome to use.

I strongly disagree

I disagree

I am neutral

I agree

I strongly agree

Question 10: I felt very confident using this program query language.

I strongly disagree

I disagree

I am neutral

I agree

I strongly agree

Question 11: I needed to learn a lot of things before I could get going with this program query language.

I strongly disagree

I disagree

I am neutral

I agree

I strongly agree

Question 12: Writing queries for coding flaws in this program query language reports many false positives (incorrect responses).

I strongly disagree

I disagree

I am neutral

I agree

I strongly agree

Question 13: Writing queries for coding flaws in this program query language yields a lot of false negatives (missed responses).

I strongly disagree

I disagree

I am neutral

I agree

I strongly agree

Question 14: Executing queries in this program query language was sufficiently fast for the task that was assigned to us.

I strongly disagree

I disagree

I am neutral

I agree

I strongly agree

Question 15: When writing a query that didn't work, was it easy to understand how to debug your query?

I strongly disagree

I disagree

I am neutral

I agree

I strongly agree

Question 16: This program query language is sufficiently powerful to allow me to express complex patterns in sufficient level of detail.

I strongly disagree

I disagree

I am neutral

I agree

I strongly agree

Question 17: This program query language strikes the right balance between expressiveness and ease of use.

I strongly disagree

I disagree

I am neutral

I agree

I strongly agree

Question 18: Queries in this program query language are declarative.

(As a reminder, a declarative language allows you to express 'what' needs to be queried, as opposed to a more procedural language which requires you to write 'how' to query.)

I strongly disagree

I disagree

I am neutral

I agree

I strongly agree

Question 19: Overall, I preferred this program query language over the second one I tried.

I strongly disagree

I disagree

I am neutral

I agree

I strongly agree

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Question 1: Which was the FIRST program query language that was assigned to you in this study?

Question 2: I think that I would like to use this program query language frequently.

Question 3: I found this program query language unnecessarily complex.

Question 4: I thought this program query language was easy to use.

Question 5: I think that I would need the support of a technical person to be able to use this program query language.

Question 6: I found the various features of this program query language were well integrated.

Question 7: I thought there was too much inconsistency in this this program query language.

Question 8: I would imagine that most people would learn to use this program query language very quickly.

Question 9: I found this program query language very cumbersome to use.

Question 10: I felt very confident using this program query language.

Question 11: I needed to learn a lot of things before I could get going with this program query language.

Question 12: Writing queries for coding flaws in this program query language reports many false positives (incorrect responses).

Question 13: Writing queries for coding flaws in this program query language yields a lot of false negatives (missed responses).

Question 14: Executing queries in this program query language was sufficiently fast for the task that was assigned to us.

Question 15: When writing a query that didn't work, was it easy to understand how to debug your query?

Question 16: This program query language is sufficiently powerful to allow me to express complex patterns in sufficient level of detail.

Question 17: This program query language strikes the right balance between expressiveness and ease of use.

Question 18: Queries in this program query language are declarative.

Question 19: Overall, I preferred this program query language over the second one I tried.

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