Programmers often have to perform change tasks that involve unfamiliar portions of a software system’s code base. To help inform the design of software development tools intende...
Jonathan Sillito, Kris De Volder, Brian Fisher, Ga...
There has been little research on end-user program development beyond the programming phase. Devising ways to address additional phases may be critical, because research shows tha...
Christine Wallace, Curtis R. Cook, Jay Summet, Mar...
Object oriented software development is designed to be modular, with code reuse being very common. When bugs are introduced, they can manifest themselves in one or more sections o...
—This paper defines an approach to maintain the work of business process analysts aligned with the work of UI designers. With this approach, models are derived from each other an...
—In software development, every change induces a risk. What happens if code changes again and again in some period of time? In an empirical study on Windows Vista, we found that ...
Nachiappan Nagappan, Andreas Zeller, Thomas Zimmer...