Mental imagery and software visualization in high-performance software development teams

Journal of Visual Languages and Computing

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 171-183

  Petre, Marian ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Empirical studies; High performance programming; Software visualization; Teamwork

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952584390     PISSN: 1045926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvlc.2009.11.001     Document Type: Article

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