What kinds of development problems can be solved by searching the web?: A field study

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 41-44

  Gallardo Valencia, Rosalva E ^a   Sim, Susan Elliott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

developers' web searches; field study; source code search

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENT PROBLEMS; FIELD STUDIES; PROGRAMMING PROBLEM; SEARCHING THE WEB; SOFTWARE COMPANY; SOFTWARE COMPONENT; SOURCE CODE SEARCHES; WEB SEARCHES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SOFTWARE DESIGN; USER INTERFACES; WEBSITES;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 79960595361     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1985429.1985440     Document Type: Conference Paper

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