ISESE
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2005
IEEE
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...
ICSE
2008
IEEE-ACM
14 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE-ACM
Conducting controlled experiments about programming activities often requires the use of multiple tasks of similar difficulty. In previously reported work about a controlled exper...
SIGSOFT
2006
ACM
15 years 5 days ago
2006
ACM
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...