{"title":"Program understanding during software adaptation tasks","authors":"A. Andrews, A. M. Vans","doi":"10.1109/ICSM.1998.738523","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper reports on a software understanding study during adaptation of large-scale software by software maintenance professionals. The paper explains the general understanding process, the information needs of these software engineers during their tasks, and the tool capabilities that would help them to be more productive. We also contrast programmer behavior during adaptation with that during other maintenance activities like corrective maintenance and enhancement.","PeriodicalId":271895,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. International Conference on Software Maintenance (Cat. No. 98CB36272)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1998-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"9","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings. International Conference on Software Maintenance (Cat. No. 98CB36272)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSM.1998.738523","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 9
Abstract
This paper reports on a software understanding study during adaptation of large-scale software by software maintenance professionals. The paper explains the general understanding process, the information needs of these software engineers during their tasks, and the tool capabilities that would help them to be more productive. We also contrast programmer behavior during adaptation with that during other maintenance activities like corrective maintenance and enhancement.