Autumn leaves: Curing the window plague in IDEs

Proceedings - Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 237-246

  Röthlisberger, David ^a   Nierstrasz, Oscar ^a   Ducasse, Stéphane ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

Developer activity analysis; Development environments; Productivity; Program comprehension; Software navigation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY ANALYSIS; BENCHMARK EVALUATION; DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT; DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENTS; INTERACTIVE DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT; LARGE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; NAVIGATION DATA; OPENED WINDOWS; PREDICTION QUALITY; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION;

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; NAVIGATION; PRODUCTIVITY; REENGINEERING; REVERSE ENGINEERING; WINDOWS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 73449114968     PISSN: 10951350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCRE.2009.18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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