Questions programmers ask during software evolution tasks

Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 23-34

  Sillito, Jonathan ^a   Murphy, Gail C ^a   De Volder, Kris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Change tasks; Development tools; Empirical study; Grounded theory; Program comprehension; Software evolution

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

CHANGE TASKS; DEVELOPMENT TOOLS; EMPIRICAL STUDY; GROUNDED THEORY; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 34547291934     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1181775.1181779     Document Type: Conference Paper

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