SMALLTALK-80: the interactive programming environment
SMALLTALK-80: the interactive programming environment
Program evolution: processes of software change
Program evolution: processes of software change
Experimentation in software engineering
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
The Trellis programming environment
OOPSLA '87 Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications
Designing documentation to compensate for delocalized plans
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Some strategies of reuse in an object-oriented programming environment
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The C Information Abstraction System
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Support for Maintaining Object-Oriented Programs
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Reducing the variability of programmers' performance through explained examples
INTERCHI '93 Proceedings of the INTERCHI '93 conference on Human factors in computing systems
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Journal of Software Maintenance: Research and Practice
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Programmer performance and the effects of the workplace
ICSE '85 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Software engineering
Qualitative Methods in Empirical Studies of Software Engineering
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Program understanding behavior during corrective maintenance of large-scale software
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies - Best of empirical studies of programmers 7
Does Code Decay? Assessing the Evidence from Change Management Data
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Exploratory experimental studies comparing online and offline programming performance
Communications of the ACM
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Experimental Design and Analysis in Software Engineering: Types of Experimental Design
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
Can you Trust a Single Data Source Exploratory Software Engineering Case Study?
Empirical Software Engineering
An examination of software engineering work practices
CASCON '97 Proceedings of the 1997 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research
Novice Comprehension of Programs Using Task-Specific and Non-Task-Specific Constructs
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Navigation and Comprehension of Programs by Novice Programmers
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Automatic generation of suggestions for program investigation
Proceedings of the 10th European software engineering conference held jointly with 13th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
MACS '05 Proceedings of the 2005 workshop on Modeling and analysis of concerns in software
ConcernMapper: simple view-based separation of scattered concerns
eclipse '05 Proceedings of the 2005 OOPSLA workshop on Eclipse technology eXchange
Subjective evaluation of software evolvability using code smells: An empirical study
Empirical Software Engineering
How Are Java Software Developers Using the Eclipse IDE?
IEEE Software
Using architecture to change code: studying information needs
Companion to the 21st ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications
The composition refactoring triangle (CRT) practical toolkit: from spaghetti to lasagna
Companion to the 21st ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications
CSCW '06 Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Work experience versus refactoring to design patterns: a controlled experiment
Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Questions programmers ask during software evolution tasks
Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
JASPER: an Eclipse plug-in to facilitate software maintenance tasks
eclipse '06 Proceedings of the 2006 OOPSLA workshop on eclipse technology eXchange
Representing concerns in source code
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Editorial: For the Special issue on Qualitative Software Engineering Research
Information and Software Technology
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Do Maintainers Utilize Deployed Design Patterns Effectively?
ICSE '07 Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Software Engineering
Suade: Topology-Based Searches for Software Investigation
ICSE '07 Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Software Engineering
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Program comprehension as fact finding
Proceedings of the the 6th joint meeting of the European software engineering conference and the ACM SIGSOFT symposium on The foundations of software engineering
An analysis of developers' tasks using low-level, automatically collected data
Proceedings of the the 6th joint meeting of the European software engineering conference and the ACM SIGSOFT symposium on The foundations of software engineering
An analysis of developers' tasks using low-level, automatically collected data
The 6th Joint Meeting on European software engineering conference and the ACM SIGSOFT symposium on the foundations of software engineering: companion papers
Exploring the neighborhood with dora to expedite software maintenance
Proceedings of the twenty-second IEEE/ACM international conference on Automated software engineering
Filtering out methods you wish you hadn't navigated
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Informing Eclipse API production and consumption
Proceedings of the 2007 OOPSLA workshop on eclipse technology eXchange
Investigating statistical machine learning as a tool for software development
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Using information scent to model the dynamic foraging behavior of programmers in maintenance tasks
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A study of student strategies for the corrective maintenance of concurrent software
Proceedings of the 30th international conference on Software engineering
Creating a cognitive metric of programming task difficulty
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A sketch of the programmer's coach: making programmers more effective
Proceedings of the 2008 international workshop on Cooperative and human aspects of software engineering
Composing knowledge fragments: a next generation ide
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More natural end-user software engineering
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Automatic identification of key classes in a software system using webmining techniques
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Succession: Measuring transfer of code and developer productivity
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SUITE '09 Proceedings of the 2009 ICSE Workshop on Search-Driven Development-Users, Infrastructure, Tools and Evaluation
Diagnosis and semi-automatic correction of detected design inconsistencies in source code
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Code bubbles: a working set-based interface for code understanding and maintenance
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Code bubbles: rethinking the user interface paradigm of integrated development environments
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A research demonstration of code bubbles
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Non-programmers identifying functionality in unfamiliar code: strategies and barriers
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Stacksplorer: understanding dynamic program behavior
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Information foraging as a foundation for code navigation (NIER track)
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Flow-augmented call graph: a new foundation for taming API complexity
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Stacksplorer: call graph navigation helps increasing code maintenance efficiency
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Human and program factors affecting the maintenance of programs with deployed design patterns
Information and Software Technology
Using metaphors from natural discussion to improve the design of arcum
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Categorization of concerns: a categorical program comprehension model
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGPLAN workshop on Evaluation and usability of programming languages and tools
The emergent structure of development tasks
ECOOP'05 Proceedings of the 19th European conference on Object-Oriented Programming
ASE '11 Proceedings of the 2011 26th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
Blaze: supporting two-phased call graph navigation in source code
CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
An empirical study on the impact of duplicate code
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How do professional developers comprehend software?
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Debugger canvas: industrial experience with the code bubbles paradigm
Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering
Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering
Code patterns for automatically validating requirements-to-code traces
Proceedings of the 27th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
Concept location using formal concept analysis and information retrieval
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
An Information Foraging Theory Perspective on Tools for Debugging, Refactoring, and Reuse Tasks
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Concept location using program dependencies and information retrieval (DepIR)
Information and Software Technology
How tools in IDEs shape developers' navigation behavior
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Towards recognizing and rewarding efficient developer work patterns
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering
Normalizing source code vocabulary to support program comprehension and software quality
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering
Interactive record/replay for web application debugging
Proceedings of the 26th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Portfolio: Searching for relevant functions and their usages in millions of lines of code
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) - Testing, debugging, and error handling, formal methods, lifecycle concerns, evolution and maintenance
Topology analysis of software dependencies
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
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Prior to performing a software change task, developers must discover and understand the subset of the system relevant to the task. Since the behavior exhibited by individual developers when investigating a software system is influenced by intuition, experience, and skill, there is often significant variability in developer effectiveness. To understand the factors that contribute to effective program investigation behavior, we conducted a study of five developers performing a change task on a medium-size open source system. We isolated the factors related to effective program investigation behavior by performing a detailed qualitative analysis of the program investigation behavior of successful and unsuccessful developers. We report on these factors as a set of detailed observations, such as evidence of the phenomenon of inattention blindness by developers skimming source code. In general, our results support the intuitive notion that a methodical and structured approach to program investigation is the most effective.