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An examination of software engineering work practices
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This paper presents work practice data of the daily activities of software engineers. Four separate studies are presented; one looking longitudinally at an individual SE; two looking at a software engineering group; and one looking at company-wide tool usage statistics. We also discuss the advantages in considering work practices in designing tools for software engineers, and include some requirements for a tool we have developed as a result of our studies.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Singer, J., Lethbridge, T., Vinson, N., & Anquetil, N.
- Venue
- CASCON First Decade High Impact Papers on - CASCON '10
- Publisher
- ACM Press
- Published
- 2010
- Pages
- 174-188
- OpenAlex
- W2180107243
- Cited by
- 298
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 12.59
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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