Improving comprehensibility of source code via traceability information: A controlled experiment

IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 317-326

  De Lucia, Andrea ^a   Di Penta, Massimiliano ^b   Oliveto, Rocco ^a   Zurolo, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Empirical studies; Traceability recovery

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSIBILITY; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; SOURCE CODE COMPONENTS; TRACEABILITY LINKS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SCIENCE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 33845414121     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPC.2006.28     Document Type: Conference Paper

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