Does a programmer's activity indicate knowledge of code?

6th Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, ESEC/FSE 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 341-350

  Fritz, Thomas ^a   Murphy, Gail C ^a   Hill, Emily ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Institute University of Delaware Newark   (United States)

Author keywords

Degree of interest; Interaction; Program structure; Structural knowledge

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; FLOW INTERACTIONS; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SURVEYS;

DEGREE-OF-INTEREST; PROGRAM STRUCTURES; STRUCTURAL KNOWLEDGE; DEGREE OF INTERESTS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; INTERACTION; JAVA PROGRAMMERS; MODEL-BASED; PROGRAM STRUCTURE; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENTS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 37849049078     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1287624.1287673     Document Type: Conference Paper

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