DocumentCode
1936612
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
fYear
1998
fDate
24-26 Jun 1998
Firstpage
173
Lastpage
179
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;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Program Comprehension, 1998. IWPC '98. Proceedings., 6th International Workshop on
Conference_Location
Ischia
ISSN
1092-8138
Print_ISBN
0-8186-8560-3
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/WPC.1998.693348
Filename
693348
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