From work to word: how do software developers describe their work?

Proceedings of the 2009 6th IEEE International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 121-130

  Maalej, Walid ^a   Happel, Hans Jörg ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b FZI RESEARCH CENTER FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPLORATORY STUDIES; SOFTWARE DEVELOPER; TOTAL WORK;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 70349912280     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MSR.2009.5069490     Document Type: Conference Paper

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