Program comprehension through multiple simultaneous views: A session with VinEd

Proceedings - IEEE Workshop on Program Comprehension

Volumn 2000-January, Issue , 2000, Pages 99-108

  Sajaniemi, Jorma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Application software; Cognitive science; Computer languages; Computer science; Concrete; Navigation; Programming profession; Software maintenance; Transformers; Writing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; CONCRETES; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; NAVIGATION; TECHNICAL WRITING;

COGNITIVE SCIENCE; COGNITIVE TASK; COMPREHENSION TASKS; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; PROGRAMMING PROFESSION; SOFTWARE EXPLORATION TOOLS; VIEW-BASED;

APPLICATION PROGRAMS;

EID: 84951067583     PISSN: 10928138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WPC.2000.852484     Document Type: Conference Paper

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