Industrial experience with an integrated code comprehension model
Industrial experience with an integrated code comprehension model
- Author(s): A. von Mayrhauser and A.M. Vans
- DOI: 10.1049/sej.1995.0023
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- Author(s): A. von Mayrhauser 1 and A.M. Vans 1
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1: Department of Computer Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA
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1: Department of Computer Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA
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Volume 10, Issue 5,
September 1995,
p.
171 – 182
DOI: 10.1049/sej.1995.0023 , Print ISSN 0268-6961, Online ISSN 2053-910X
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Maintenance frequently consumes more resources than new software development. A major portion of the maintenance effort is spent trying to understand existing software. If more can be learnt about how programmers understand code successfully, better tools to support this understanding process can be built. This contributes to higher quality and improved efficiency of maintenance tasks. Audio-taped ‘think aloud’ reports were used to investigate an integrated code comprehension model during a variety of industrial maintenance activities. The tapes were analysed for information needs during maintenance activities and used to derive useful tool capabilities.
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