The Book Paradigm for Improved Maintenance

  • Authors:
  • Paul W. Oman;Curtis R. Cook

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Software
  • Year:
  • 1990

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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.