How software developers use tagging to support reminding and refinding

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 470-483

  Storey, Margaret Anne ^a   Ryall, Jody ^a   Singer, Janice ^b   Myers, Del ^a   Cheng, Li Te ^c   Muller, Michael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Annotations; Software development tools; Software navigation; Software tagging; Tags

Indexed keywords

ANNOTATIONS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TOOLS; SOFTWARE NAVIGATION; SOFTWARE TAGGING; TAGS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; NAVIGATION; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 68949215586     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2009.15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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