Let's go to the whiteboard: How and why software developers use drawings

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 557-566

  Cherubini, Mauro ^a   Venolia, Gina ^b   Deline, Rob ^b   Ko, Andrew J ^c  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagrams; Exploratory field study; Software visualization

Indexed keywords

DIAGRAMS; ELECTRONIC RENDERINGS; EXPLORATORY/FIELD STUDY; SOFTWARE VISUALIZATION;

CODES (SYMBOLS); PROBLEM SOLVING;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 35348861472     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1240624.1240714     Document Type: Conference Paper

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