DocumentCode
2746556
Title
Program understanding needs during corrective maintenance of large scale software
Author
Von Mayrhauser, Anneliese ; Vans, A. Marie
Author_Institution
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO, USA
fYear
1997
fDate
11-15 Aug 1997
Firstpage
630
Lastpage
637
Abstract
We report on a software understanding field study during corrective maintenance of large-scale software by professional software maintenance engineers. We explain the general understanding process, the information needs of these software engineers during their tasks, and the tool capabilities that would help them to be more productive
Keywords
human resource management; reverse engineering; software maintenance; software tools; corrective maintenance; information needs; large scale software; productivity; professional software maintenance engineers; program understanding needs; software tool; software understanding field study; Cognition; Computer science; Documentation; Large-scale systems; Programming profession; Software algorithms; Software maintenance; Software testing; Software tools; Switches;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Computer Software and Applications Conference, 1997. COMPSAC '97. Proceedings., The Twenty-First Annual International
Conference_Location
Washington, DC
ISSN
0730-3157
Print_ISBN
0-8186-8105-5
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/CMPSAC.1997.625084
Filename
625084
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