Design guidelines for ambient software visualization in the workplace

VISSOFT 2007 - Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Workshop on Visualizing Software for Understanding and Analysis

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 18-25

  Parnin, Chris ^a   Görg, Carsten ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION DOMAINS; CUSTOMER REQUIREMENTS; DESIGN GUIDELINES; DETAILED STRUCTURE; DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES; INFORMATION FLOWS; INFORMATION SOURCE (IS); INTERNATIONAL (CO); PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS; RIGHT INFORMATION; SOFTWARE ARTIFACTS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE VISUALIZATION (SV); WORK FLOWS;

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SPECIFICATIONS; VISUALIZATION;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 46449113278     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VISSOF.2007.4290695     Document Type: Conference Paper

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