How programmers can turn comments into waypoints for code navigation

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 265-274

  Storey, M A ^a   Cheng, L T ^b   Singer, J ^c   Muller, M ^b   Myers, D ^a   Ryall, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MAINTENANCE; NAVIGATION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

CASE STUDIES; ENGINEERING ACTIVITIES; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; NAVIGATIONAL STRUCTURES; NEW APPROACHES; PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMMERS; SOCIAL TAGGING; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; TOOL SUPPORTS; WAYPOINTS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 47349129354     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2007.4362639     Document Type: Conference Paper

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