Informatics researchers from the University of Zurich have developed a not at all sinister-sounding system capable of predicting the quality of code produced by developers based on their biometric data. By using heart rate information, for example, they were able to quantify the difficulty a given programmer had in producing a piece of software. This information could then be used to identify likely sections of bad code. Pre-crime for software debugging, in other words.
The Zurich researchers, Sebastian C Müller and Thomas Fritz, describe their work in a paper presented this week at the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering in Austin.
