Empirical studies on programming language stimuli

Software Quality Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 65-99

  Stefik, Andreas ^a   Gellenbeck, Ed ^b  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE   (United States)

^b CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Debugging; Multimedia programming; Program comprehension

Indexed keywords

ADA (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); AIR NAVIGATION; COMPUTER DEBUGGING; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; SEMANTICS; SYNTACTICS; VISUAL LANGUAGES;

AUDITORY STIMULI; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT; MULTIMEDIA PROGRAMMING; PILOT SURVEYS; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; PROGRAM EXECUTION; VISUAL STIMULUS;

PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

EID: 78751705498     PISSN: 09639314     EISSN: 15731367     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11219-010-9106-7     Document Type: Article

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