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IWPC
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Empirical Evaluation of a UML Sequence Diagram with Adornments to Support Understanding of Thread Interactions
Programs that use multi-threaded concurrency are known to be difficult to design. Moreover, research in computer-science education suggests that concurrency and synchronization co...
Shaohua Xie, Eileen Kraemer, R. E. Kurt Stirewalt
ICSM
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Playing roles in design patterns: An empirical descriptive and analytic study
This work presents a descriptive and analytic study of classes playing zero, one, or two roles in six different design patterns (and combinations thereof). First, we answer three...
Foutse Khomh, Yann-Gaël Guéhéne...
ACM
1994
13 years 11 months ago
Identifying Essential Competencies of Software Engineers
The knowledge and skills of software engineers are perhaps the most important factors in determining the success of software development. Thus, we seek to identify the professiona...
Richard T. Turley, James M. Bieman
SIGSOFT
2010
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Social media for software engineering
Social media has changed the way that people collaborate and share information. In this paper, we highlight its impact for enabling new ways for software teams to form and work to...
Andrew Begel, Robert DeLine, Thomas Zimmermann
ESE
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Cooperative method development
The development of methods tools and process improvements is best to be based on the understanding of the development practice to be supported. Qualitative research has been propo...
Yvonne Dittrich, Kari Rönkkö, Jeanette E...