Scents in programs: Does information foraging theory apply to program maintenance?

Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 15-22

  Lawrance, Joseph ^a   Bellamy, Rachel ^b   Burnett, Margaret ^a  

^a Oregon State University   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION FORAGING; PROGRAM BEHAVIORS; REASONING SYSTEMS; SOURCE CODES;

LINGUISTICS; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS;

MAINTENANCE;

EID: 47949085244     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VLHCC.2007.48     Document Type: Conference Paper

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