Do professional developers benefit from design pattern documentation? A replication in the context of source code comprehension

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7590 LNCS, Issue , 2012, Pages 185-201

  Gravino, Carmine ^a   Risi, Michele ^a   Scanniello, Giuseppe ^b   Tortora, Genoveffa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Controlled Experiment; Design Patterns; Maintenance; Replications; Software Models; Source Code Comprehension

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; DESIGN PATTERNS; REPLICATIONS; SOFTWARE MODEL; SOURCE CODES;

MAINTENANCE; MODELS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

EID: 84867632830     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-33666-9_13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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