Expressiveness and effectiveness of program comprehension: Thoughts on future research directions

Proceedings of the 2008 Frontiers of Software Maintenance, FoSM 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 31-37

  Maletic, Jonathan I ^a   Kagdi, Huzefa ^b  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Missouri Rolla   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; MAINTENANCE;

CONTROLLED EXPERIMENTS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS; NEW APPLICATIONS; PROGRAM COMPREHENSIONS; RESEARCH CHALLENGES; RESEARCH DIRECTIONS; RESEARCH ISSUES; TWO AXES;

MAINTAINABILITY;

EID: 57849122123     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FOSM.2008.4659246     Document Type: Conference Paper

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