• DocumentCode
    3078604
  • Title

    Studying Onboarding to Improve Program Comprehension Tool Support

  • Author

    Yates, Rebecca

  • Author_Institution
    Lero, Univ. of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    21-25 Sept. 2010
  • Firstpage
    257
  • Lastpage
    258
  • Abstract
    Gaining an understanding of unfamiliar software systems is hard. Existing support tools are based on studies of the information sought by software developers, but often the developers themselves do not know what to look for. Here an alternative is proposed: by studying the information `pushed´ from software experts to new developers during onboarding, the information provided by the experts can be analysed and compared to the information `pulled´ by the new developers. The content and presentation of this data will inform tool design for onboarding support.
  • Keywords
    software tools; program comprehension tool support; software developer; software system; tool design; Companies; Computational modeling; Conferences; Data visualization; Programming; Software; USA Councils; onboarding; program comprehension;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC), 2010 IEEE Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Leganes
  • ISSN
    1943-6092
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8485-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/VLHCC.2010.47
  • Filename
    5635249