• DocumentCode
    1125769
  • 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
  • Volume
    7
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1990
  • Firstpage
    39
  • Lastpage
    45
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Software, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0740-7459
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/52.43048
  • Filename
    43048