Opportunistic programming: How rapid ideation and prototyping occur in practice

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-5

  Brandt, Joel ^a   Guo, Philip J ^a   Lewenstein, Joel ^a   Klemmer, Scott R ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

End user software engineering; Opportunistic programming; Prototyping

Indexed keywords

COPY AND PASTES; END-USER SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; FUTURE RESEARCHES; LABORATORY STUDIES; OPPORTUNISTIC PROGRAMMING; PROTOTYPING; TRADITIONAL SOFTWARES;

COBALT; CODES (SYMBOLS); ENGINEERING; HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES; MAINTAINABILITY; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

EID: 57049172599     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1370847.1370848     Document Type: Conference Paper

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