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Questions programmers ask during software evolution tasks

Sillito, Jonathan, Murphy, Gail C., De Volder, Kris·2006·Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering

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Though many tools are available to help programmers working on change tasks, and several studies have been conducted to understand how programmers comprehend systems, little is known about the specific kinds of questions programmers ask when evolving a code base. To fill this gap we conducted two qualitative studies of programmers performing change tasks to medium to large sized programs. One study involved newcomers working on assigned change tasks to a medium-sized code base. The other study involved industrial programmers working on their own change tasks on code with which they had experience. The focus of our analysis has been on what information a programmer needs to know about a code base while performing a change task and also on howthey go about discovering that information. Based on this analysis we catalog and categorize 44 different kinds of questions asked by our participants. We also describe important context for how those questions were answered by our participants, including their use of tools.

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Authors: Sillito, J., Murphy, G. C., & De Volder, K.
Affiliations: University of British Columbia (CA)
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. Canada
ORCID: Sillito, Jonathan
Murphy, Gail C.
Venue: Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Publisher: ACM
Published: 2006-11-05
Pages: 23-34
DOI: 10.1145/1181775.1181779
OpenAlex: W2080534028
Semantic Scholar: 3dda5d9a5e4eb27760e8a4a381a1057ce0ba7d65
Cited by: 270
References: 22
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FWCI: 9.47
Type: conference paper
Language: en
Open access: closed
Locations: ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE) (publishedVersion)
Funders: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Topics: Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Software Engineering Research
Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Software Engineering Techniques and Practices
Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Software › Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies
Keywords: software evolution, information needs, novice programmers, software tools

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