Modelling the information-seeking behaviour of programmers - An empirical approach

Michael P. O'Brien; Jim Buckley

Modelling the information-seeking behaviour of programmers - An empirical approach

Michael P. O'Brien, Jim Buckley

Department of Computer Science & Information Systems

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	125-134
Number of pages	10
Journal	Proceedings - IEEE Workshop on Program Comprehension
Volume	1994
Publication status	Published - 2005
Event	13th International Workshop on Program Comprehension, IWPC 2005 - St. Louis, MO, United States Duration: 15 May 2005 → 16 May 2005

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