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2007
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Does a programmer's activity indicate knowledge of code?

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Does a programmer's activity indicate knowledge of code?
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 assume a useful form of such a model can be created from data collected during development, such as expertise recommenders that use information about who has changed each file to suggest who might answer questions about particular parts of a system. In this paper, we report on an empirical study that investigates whether a programmer's activity can be used to build a model of what a programmer knows about a code base. In this study, nineteen professional Java programmers completed a series of questionnaires about the code on which they were working. These questionnaires were generated automatically and asked about program elements a programmer had worked with frequently and recently and ones that he had not. We found that a degree of interest model based on this frequency and recency of interaction can ...
Thomas Fritz, Gail C. Murphy, Emily Hill
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Type Conference
Year 2007
Where SIGSOFT
Authors Thomas Fritz, Gail C. Murphy, Emily Hill
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