Object-oriented program comprehension: Effect of expertise, task and phase

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 115-156

  Burkhardt, Jean Marie ^a,b   Détienne, Françoise ^a   Wiedenbeck, Susan ^c  

^a INRIA   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

Expertise; Mental representation; Object oriented programming; Program comprehension; Program model; Situation model; Text comprehension

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PERSONNEL; TEXT PROCESSING;

MENTAL REPRESENTATION; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; PROGRAM MODEL; SITUATION MODEL; TEXT COMPREHENSION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 0036605445     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1015297914742     Document Type: Article

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