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Software Development with Code Maps: Could those ubiquitous hand-drawn code diagrams become a thing of the past?

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Robert DeLine,

Gina Venolia,

Kael RowanAuthors Info & Claims

Queue, Volume 8, Issue 7

Pages 10 - 18

https://doi.org/10.1145/1831327.1831329

Published: 01 July 2010 Publication History

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To better understand how professional software developers use visual representations of their code, we interviewed nine developers at Microsoft to identify common scenarios, and then surveyed more than 400 developers to understand the scenarios more deeply.

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Software Development with Code Maps: Could those ubiquitous hand-drawn code diagrams become a thing of the past?
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
      1. Software implementation planning
        Software design techniques
    2. Software development process management
  2. Software notations and tools

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DOI:10.1145/1831327

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