Title :
Program understanding needs during corrective maintenance of large scale software
Author :
Von Mayrhauser, Anneliese ; Vans, A. Marie
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO, USA
Abstract :
We report on a software understanding field study during corrective maintenance of large-scale software by professional software maintenance engineers. We explain 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
Keywords :
human resource management; reverse engineering; software maintenance; software tools; corrective maintenance; information needs; large scale software; productivity; professional software maintenance engineers; program understanding needs; software tool; software understanding field study; Cognition; Computer science; Documentation; Large-scale systems; Programming profession; Software algorithms; Software maintenance; Software testing; Software tools; Switches;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Software and Applications Conference, 1997. COMPSAC '97. Proceedings., The Twenty-First Annual International
Conference_Location :
Washington, DC
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8105-5
DOI :
10.1109/CMPSAC.1997.625084
