Insights from expert software design practice

ESEC-FSE'09 - Proceedings of the Joint 12th European Software Engineering Conference and 17th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 233-241

  Petre, Marian ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Design; Empirical studies; Expertise; Software design processes

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE WORK; DESIGN STUDIES; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EXPERTISE; MENTAL IMAGERY; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES; SOFTWARE DESIGN PROCESS; SOFTWARE DESIGNERS; TOOL DESIGNS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DESIGN;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 77949374236     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1595696.1595731     Document Type: Conference Paper

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