How do software engineers understand code changes?: an exploratory study in industry

Yida Tao, Yingnong Dang, Tao Xie, Dongmei Zhang, Sunghun Kim

Abstract

Software evolves with continuous source-code changes. These code changes usually need to be understood by software engineers when performing their daily development and maintenance tasks. However, despite its high importance, such change-understanding practice has not been systematically studied. Such lack of empirical knowledge hinders attempts to evaluate this fundamental practice and improve the corresponding tool support.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{Tao-al:FSE12,
  author    = {Yida Tao and
               Yingnong Dang and
               Tao Xie and
               Dongmei Zhang and
               Sunghun Kim},
  title     = {How do software engineers understand code changes?: an exploratory study in industry},
  booktitle = {FSE},
  pages     = {51},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year      = {2012},
}

How do software engineers understand code changes?: an exploratory study in industry

Abstract

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