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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 28 , Issue 2 (February 1985) table of contents

Pages: 180 - 189

Year of Publication: 1985

ISSN:0001-0782

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Stephen José Hanson	Bell Communications Research, Murray Hill, NJ
Richard R. Rosinski	AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Lincroft, NJ

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Psychometric scaling methods are applied to programmer productivity assessments of 20 tools to recommend a set of minimal, as well as more comprehensive, tools.

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	Edward G. Okie , James D. Arthur, The execution history approach to intelligent debugging, Proceedings of the 1988 ACM sixteenth annual conference on Computer science, p.273-281, February 1988, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
	Ronald J. Norman , Jay F. Nunamaker, Jr., CASE productivity perceptions of software engineering professionals, Communications of the ACM, v.32 n.9, p.1102-1108, Sept. 1989
	P O Bobbie, Productivity through automated tools, ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, v.12 n.2, p.30-31, April 1987
	Sarah H. Nash , Samuel T. Redwine, Jr., People and organizations in software production: a review of the literature, ACM SIGCPR Computer Personnel, v.11 n.3, p.10-21, Jan., 1988
	Wilfred W. Wu , Song-Horng Lin , Yea-Yun Cheng , Cheng-Hwai Liou , Jui-Yuan Wu , Yi-Hua Lin , Frederick H. Wu, Changes in MIS research: status and themes from 1989 to 2000, International Journal of Information Systems and Change Management, v.1 n.1, p.3-35, November 2006
	P. J. Guinan , J. G. Cooprider , S. Sawyer, The effective use of automated application development tools, IBM Systems Journal, v.36 n.1, p.124-139, 1997

INDEX TERMS

Classification:
D. Software
D.1 PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES
D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
D.2.2 Design Tools and Techniques
Subjects: Programmer workbench**; Software libraries
D.2.3 Coding Tools and Techniques
Subjects: Pretty printers; Program editors
D.2.5 Testing and Debugging
Subjects: Testing tools (e.g., data generators, coverage testing); Debugging aids

H. Information Systems
H.1 MODELS AND PRINCIPLES
H.1.2 User/Machine Systems
Subjects: Human information processing

General Terms:
Experimentation, Human Factors, Measurement, Performance

REVIEW

"Marvin V. Zelkowitz : Reviewer"

The authors describe three ways to measure tool use: (1) controlled experiments, (2) measure programmers to determine which tools they naturally use, and (3) survey their preferences. This paper describes an experiment based upon this third meth more...

Collaborative Colleagues:

Stephen José Hanson: colleagues

Richard R. Rosinski: colleagues

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