Title :
The book paradigm for improved maintenance
Author :
Oman, Paul W. ; Cook, Curtis R.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Idaho Univ., Moscow, ID, USA
Abstract :
The authors propose a book paradigm of program formatting that they believe is the most appropriate typographic organization of source-code documents. The authors claim that their approach offers the following advantages: an easily recognized document paradigm; high-level organizational clues about the code; low-level organization chunks and beacons; and multiple access paths by way of the table of contents and indexes. They describe two experiments that confirm these benefits.<>
Keywords :
programming; software engineering; system documentation; beacons; book paradigm; document paradigm; improved maintenance; indexes; multiple access paths; organization chunks; organizational clues; program formatting; source-code documents; table of contents; typographic organization; Books; Indexing; Large screen displays; Organizing; Programming profession; Switches;
Journal_Title :
Software, IEEE