Modelling the information-seeking behaviour of programmers – an emperical approach
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posted on 2012-05-29, 11:47 authored by Michael P. O'Brien, Jim BuckleyJim BuckleyInformation 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.
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Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Program Comprehension (IWPC’05); pp 125-135Publisher
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