Control of cognitive processes during software design: What tools are needed?

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn Part F130202, Issue , 1988, Pages 263-268

  Guindon, Raymonde ^a   Curtis, Bill ^a  

^a Microelectronics Computer Technology Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Breakdowns; Control strategies; Opportunistic design; Software design; Software design process

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; PROCESS CONTROL; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

BREAKDOWNS; CONTROL STRATEGIES; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; PROFESSIONAL SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE DESIGN PROCESS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PRACTICES; VERBAL PROTOCOL STUDIES;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 84958419371     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/57167.57211     Document Type: Conference Paper

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