Modelling the Information-Seeking Behaviour of Programmers - An Empirical Approach

  • Authors:

  • Michael P. O'Brien;Jim Buckley

  • Affiliations:

  • University of Limerick;University of Limerick

  • Venue:
  • IWPC '05 Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Program Comprehension
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Information seeking has been recognised as a core subtask in software maintenance. This paper reviews, merges, and adapts existing information seeking models for different domains to propose a non-linear information-seeking model for programmers involved in software maintenance. Talk-aloud data from two empirical studies of industrial programmers carrying out real software maintenance tasks is presented, to illustrate and validate (in part) this model.