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CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Designing for discovery: opening the hood for open-source end user tinkering
According to the Free Software Movement, the user ought to have "the freedoms to make changes, and to publish improved versions" and "to study how the program works...
Gifford Cheung, Parmit Chilana, Shaun K. Kane, Bra...
ICSM
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
What's hot and what's not: Windowed developer topic analysis
As development on a software project progresses, developers shift their focus between different topics and tasks many times. Managers and newcomer developers often seek ways of un...
Abram Hindle, Michael W. Godfrey, Richard C. Holt
ICSM
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Understanding the rationale for updating a function's comment
Up-to-date comments are critical for the successful evolution of a software application. When modifying a function, developers may update the comment associated with the function ...
Haroon Malik, Istehad Chowdhury, Hsiao-Ming Tsou, ...
GTTSE
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Model Transformations for the Compilation of Multi-processor Systems-on-Chip
With the increase of amount of transistors which can be contained on a chip and the constant expectation for more sophisticated applications, the design of Systems-on-Chip (SoC) is...
Éric Piel, Philippe Marquet, Jean-Luc Dekey...
OOPSLA
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Notation and representation in collaborative object-oriented design: an observational study
Software designers in the object-oriented paradigm can make use of modeling tools and standard notations such as UML. Nevertheless, casual observations from collocated design coll...
Uri Dekel, James D. Herbsleb