Using Information Scent to model the dynamic foraging behavior of programmers in maintenance tasks

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1323-1332

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

^a Oregon State University   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Debugging; Information foraging; Software maintenance

Indexed keywords

BUG REPORTS; DEBUGGING; ENGINEERING COMMUNITIES; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; EXPERT PROGRAMMERS; FORAGING BEHAVIORS; HUMAN DECISIONS; INFORMATION FORAGING; JAVA APPLICATIONS; MAINTENANCE TASKS; NAVIGATION TOOLS; SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; THEORETICAL BASIS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; HUMAN ENGINEERING; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MAINTENANCE; NAVIGATION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

EID: 56349138296     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1357054.1357261     Document Type: Conference Paper

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