An empirical investigation of the influence of a type of side effects on program comprehension

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 665-670

  Dolado, J J ^a   Harman, M ^b   Otero, M C ^a   Hu, L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crossover designs; Program comprehension; Side effect free programs

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); CODES (SYMBOLS); CODING ERRORS; ERROR CORRECTION; PROGRAM DIAGNOSTICS;

DECREMENT OPERATORS; INCREMENT OPERATORS; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; SIDE EFFECT FREE PROGRAMS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 0041848283     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2003.1214329     Document Type: Article

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