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...
End users develop more software than any other group of programmers, using software authoring devices such as e-mail filtering editors, by-demonstration macro builders, and spread...
Joseph R. Ruthruff, Margaret M. Burnett, Gregg Rot...
Pattern matching is the most computation intensive task of a network intrusion detection system (NIDS). In this paper we present a hardware architecture to speed up the pattern mat...
Though many tools are available to help programmers working on change tasks, and several studies have been conducted to understand how programmers comprehend systems, little is kn...
We have developed a new approach for software navigation called TagSEA (Tagging of Software Engineering Activities). TagSEA combines the notion of “waypointing” with “social...
Margaret-Anne D. Storey, Li-Te Cheng, Janice Singe...