An Exploratory Study of How Developers Seek, Relate, and Collect Relevant Information during Software Maintenance Tasks.

Ko, A. J., Myers, B. A., Coblenz, M. J., & Aung, H. H. (2006). An Exploratory Study of How Developers Seek, Relate, and Collect Relevant Information during Software Maintenance Tasks. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 32(12), 971-987.

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Journal article

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Year

2006

DOI

10.1109/tse.2006.116

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https://doi.org/10.1109/TSE.2006.116

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cognitive_science

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  • In software engineering, navigating a codebase is navigation in a typed graph of files, modules, and call sites, and tooling features like jump-to-definition and breadcrumbs are explicit navigation aids, with "getting lost in someone else's code" as the diagnostic.

    This sourceEmpirical study of developers navigating unfamiliar code — searching, relating, and collecting one hop at a time, misled by limited cues into failed searches and disorientation — grounding code navigation and program comprehension as a positioned-agent process (the 'getting lost in someone else's code' diagnostic).

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