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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 40 , Issue 4 (April 1997) table of contents

Pages: 55 - 64

Year of Publication: 1997

ISSN:0001-0782

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Christopher Fry

PowerScout Corp., Boston

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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Downloads (6 Weeks): 2, Downloads (12 Months): 30, Citation Count: 3

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	Andrew J. Ko , Htet Aung , Brad A. Myers, Eliciting design requirements for maintenance-oriented IDEs: a detailed study of corrective and perfective maintenance tasks, Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Software engineering, May 15-21, 2005, St. Louis, MO, USA
	H. Lieberman , T. Selker, Out of context: computer systems that adapt to, and learn from, context, IBM Systems Journal, v.39 n.3-4, p.617-632, July 2000

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
D. Software
D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
D.2.5 Testing and Debugging

Additional Classification:
D. Software
D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
D.2.2 Design Tools and Techniques
D.2.6 Programming Environments

General Terms:
Documentation, Human Factors

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This paper is based on unsupported premises and, as a result, attacks non-problems or, if not that, then certainly does not attack significant programming problems. The questionable premise is that the act of coding and getting to more...

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