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SIGSOFT
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months 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...
ICSE
2008
IEEE-ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2008
IEEE-ACM
When software developers want to understand the reason for a program's behavior, they must translate their questions about the behavior into a series of questions about code,...
ICSM
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2007
IEEE
Identifiers represent an important source of information for programmers understanding and maintaining a system. Self-documenting identifiers reduce the time and effort necessa...
SIGSOFT
2010
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
2010
ACM
Keeping requirements specification up-to-date during the evolution of a software system is an expensive task. Consequently, specifications are usually not updated and rapidly beco...
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2007
ACM
The practice of software development can likely be improved if an externalized model of each programmer's knowledge of a particular code base is available. Some tools already...