Aligning development tools with the way programmers think about code changes

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 567-576

  Boshernitsan, Marat ^a   Graham, Susan L ^b   Hearst, Marti A ^b  

^a Agitar Software Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive dimensions; Transformations; Visual languages

Indexed keywords

CODE TRANSFORMATIONS; COGNITIVE DIMENSIONS; VISUAL LANGUAGES;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; USER INTERFACES;

CODES (SYMBOLS);

EID: 35348917707     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1240624.1240715     Document Type: Conference Paper

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