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Empirically refining a model of programmers’ information-seeking behavior during software maintenance

Buckley, Jim; O'Brien, Michael P.; Power, Norah (2006)

Several authors have proposed information seeking as an appropriate perspective for studying software maintenance activities. However, there is little research in the literature describing holistic information-seeking ...
Empirically studying software practitioners – bridging the gap between theory and practice

O'Brien, Michael P.; Buckley, Jim; Exton, Chris (IEEE Computer Society, 2005)

It is the view of many computer scientists that the standard of empirical software engineering research leaves scope for improvement. However, there is also an increasing awareness in the software engineering community ...
Modelling the information-seeking behaviour of programmers – an emperical approach

O'Brien, Michael P.; Buckley, Jim (IEEE Computer Society, 2005)

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 ...

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