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CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Determining relevancy: how software developers determine relevant information in feeds
Finding relevant information within the vast amount of information exchanged via feeds is difficult. Previous research into this problem has largely focused on recommending relev...
Thomas Fritz, Gail C. Murphy
ISCA
2010
IEEE
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13 years 2 months ago
Evolution of thread-level parallelism in desktop applications
As the effective limits of frequency and instruction level parallelism have been reached, the strategy of microprocessor vendors has changed to increase the number of processing ...
Geoffrey Blake, Ronald G. Dreslinski, Trevor N. Mu...
SOFTWARE
2002
13 years 3 months ago
Software Engineering Education
Software's increasingly critical role in systems of widespread significance presents new challenges for the education of software engineers. Not only is our dependence on sof...
SOFTWARE
1998
13 years 3 months ago
Interrupts: Just a Minute Never Is
development is a highly abstract process that requires intense concentration. The authors show that interrupting this process can significantly reduce a developer’s efficiency an...
Rini van Solingen, Egon Berghout, Frank van Latum
ASE
2005
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13 years 3 months ago
Reuse-Conducive Development Environments
Despite its well-recognized benefits, software reuse has not met its expected success due to technical, cognitive, and social difficulties. We have systematically analyzed the reu...
Yunwen Ye, Gerhard Fischer
JSS
2008
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13 years 3 months ago
Understanding knowledge sharing activities in free/open source software projects: An empirical study
Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) projects are people-oriented and knowledge intensive software development environments. Many researchers focused on mailing lists to study coding...
Sulayman K. Sowe, Ioannis Stamelos, Lefteris Angel...
AGILEDC
2007
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
Does the XP environment meet the motivational needs of the software developer? An empirical study
This paper examines how XP practice meets the motivational needs of software developers. Interactions with peers have been identified by others as one potential area of (de)motiva...
Sarah Beecham, Helen Sharp, Nathan Baddoo, Tracy H...
ICSE
1995
IEEE-ACM
13 years 7 months ago
The World and the Machine
As software developers we are engineers because we make useful machines. We are concerned both with the world, in which the machine serves a useful purpose, and with the machine i...
Michael Jackson
ICSE
2000
IEEE-ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Software engineering education: a roadmap
Software's increasingly critical role in systems of widespread significance presents new challenges for the education of software engineers. Not only is our dependence on sof...
Mary Shaw
OOIS
1994
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Problems, Descriptions and Objects
The business of software development is solving problems. Following Polya, we can increase our ability to solve problems by focusing directly on problems themselves, on their part...
Michael Jackson