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ICSM
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Software Feature Understanding in an Industrial Setting
Software Engineers frequently need to locate and understand the code that implements a specific user feature of a large system. This paper reports on a study by Motorola Inc. and ...
Michael Jiang, Michael Groble, Sharon Simmons, Den...
ASPLOS
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
Understanding modern device drivers
Device drivers are the single largest contributor to operating-system kernel code with over 5 million lines of code in the Linux kernel, and cause significant complexity, bugs an...
Asim Kadav, Michael M. Swift
ESEM
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Why do programmers avoid metrics?
Software process improvement initiatives such as metrics programs have a high failure rate during their assimilation in a software organization. Social and organizational issues a...
Medha Umarji, Carolyn B. Seaman
CORR
2006
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
Mental Representations Constructed by Experts and Novices in Object-Oriented Program Comprehension
Previous studies on program comprehension were carried out largely in the context of procedural languages. Our purpose is to develop and evaluate a cognitive model of object-orient...
Jean-Marie Burkhardt, Françoise Déti...
IWPC
2005
IEEE
14 years 20 days ago
Tool Demonstration: JIVE and JOVE: Java as it Happens
Dynamic software visualization is designed to provide programmers with insights as to what the program is doing. Most current visualizations either use program traces to show info...
Steven P. Reiss, Manos Renieris