Designing your next empirical study on program comprehension

IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 281-285

  Di Penta, Massimiliano ^a   Stirewalt, R E K ^b   Kraemer, Eileen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

^b Michigan State University

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Design of experiments; Empirical software engineering; Program comprehension

Indexed keywords

CASE STUDIES; EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; MAINTENANCE SCENARIOS; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION;

DATA PROCESSING; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SURVEYS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 34948839471     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPC.2007.17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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