Building an ecologically valid, large-scale diagram to help developers stay oriented in their code

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 157-160

  Cherubini, Mauro ^a   Venolia, Gina ^b   DeLine, Rob ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN ITERATIONS; FUTURE RESEARCHES; INITIAL DESIGNS; LESSONS LEARNED; RESEARCH TEAMS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; LINGUISTICS;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 47949102344     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VLHCC.2007.12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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