Title :
Studying work practices to assist tool design in software engineering
Author :
Singer, Janice ; Lethbridge, Timothy
Author_Institution :
Inst. for Inf. Technol., Nat. Res. Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ont., Canada
Abstract :
This paper reports our experiences studying the work practices of professional software engineers (SEs). We provide our reasons for following this approach, and describe details such as the discovery of work patterns, and the use of synchronized shadowing. We outline several studies we are currently conducting in a large telecommunications company and explain how these studies influenced the design of a software engineering exploration environment
Keywords :
reverse engineering; software tools; large telecommunications company; program comprehension; software engineering; software engineering exploration environment; synchronized shadowing; tool design; work patterns; work practices; Computer industry; Councils; Design engineering; Employment; Information technology; Laboratories; Shadow mapping; Software design; Software engineering; Software tools;
Conference_Titel :
Program Comprehension, 1998. IWPC '98. Proceedings., 6th International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Ischia
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8560-3
DOI :
10.1109/WPC.1998.693348
