Questions programmers ask during software evolution tasks
By Jonathan Sillito, Gail C. Murphy, Kris De Volder. SIGSOFT '06/FSE-14, 2006
305 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Computer Science Applications, Information Systems
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/3dda5d9a5e4eb27760e8a4a381a1057ce0ba7d65
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In Computer Science Applications
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- Amy J. Ko
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- Thomas D. Latoza
- Christoph Treude
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Citations in the corpus
- How do Students Experience and Judge Software Comprehension Techniques? (2020, background): “Sillito et al. [25] distinguished in their study between question asked by novices and questions asked by programmers working on systems they are already familiar with.”
- Automatic patch generation learned from human-written patches (2013, background): “They presented patches to participants and asked maintainability related questions developed by Sillito, Murphy, and Volder [25].”
- Asking and Answering Questions during a Programming Change Task (2008, unknown): “Johnson and Erdem extracted and analyzed questions posted to Usenet newsgroups [29].”
- Information needs for software development analytics (2012, background): “, [6], [7], [8]), the needs of project managers, those who make the important decisions about the future of projects, are not well understood.”
- How do programmers ask and answer questions on the web?: NIER track (2011, background): “Sillito et al. [12] provide a similar list focusing on questions during evolution tasks.”
- Portfolio: finding relevant functions and their usage (2011, methodology): “More specifically, programmers use different tools including code search engines to answer three types of questions [30, 29].”
- Decoding the Representation of Code in the Brain: An fMRI Study of Code Review and Expertise (2017, methodology): “’s study of questions asked by actual programmers during software evolution tasks [71].”
- A practical guide to controlled experiments of software engineering tools with human participants (2013, methodology): “Methodological literature instead focuses on other important but more general issues, providing conceptual background on experiments, measurement, and research design (e.g., Wohlin et al. 2000; Easterbrook et al. 2008; Shull et al. 2006; Juristo and Moreno 2001; Kitchenham et al. 2002).”