How Software Engineers Use Documentation: The State of the Practice

IEEE Software

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 35-39

  Lethbridge, Timothy C ^a   Singer, Janice ^b   Forward, Andrew ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c NRC Inst for Information Technology ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA ACQUISITION; DECISION MAKING; PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; WORLD WIDE WEB;

TASK ANALYSIS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0242578047     PISSN: 07407459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MS.2003.1241364     Document Type: Review

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2. J. Singer et al., "An Examination of Software Engineering Work Practices," Proc. Centers for Advanced Studies Conf. (CASCON 97), IBM, pp. 209-223.
3. J. Singer and T.C. Lethbridge, "Studying Work Practices to Assist Tool Design," Proc. Int'l Workshop Program Comprehension (IWPC 98), IEEE CS Press, pp. 173-179.
4. A. Forward, Software Documentation: Building and Maintaining Artefacts of Communication, master's thesis, School of Information Technology and Eng., Univ. Ottawa, 2002; www.site.uottawa.ca/̃tcl/gradtheses/aforward.
5. A. Forward and T.C. Lethbridge, "The Relevance of Software Documentation, Tools and Technologies: A Survey," Proc. ACM Symp. Documentation Eng. (DocEng 2002), ACM Press, pp. 26-33.