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ISESE
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Managing software change tasks: an exploratory study
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...
ICSE
2008
IEEE-ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Creating a cognitive metric of programming task difficulty
Conducting controlled experiments about programming activities often requires the use of multiple tasks of similar difficulty. In previously reported work about a controlled exper...
Brian de Alwis, Gail C. Murphy, Shawn Minto
SIGSOFT
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Questions programmers ask during software evolution tasks
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...
Jonathan Sillito, Gail C. Murphy, Kris De Volder