Paper Info
Title
Empirical Evaluation of Hypertextual Information Access from Program Text
Abstract
HyperSoft is a hypertext-based software maintenance support tool. HyperSoft provides various transient hypertextual access structures (THASs), which are formed automatically on the basis of the situation-dependent information needs of software engineers. THASs highlight the relevant parts of the program and enable nonlinear browsing between them. The system also supports various graphical views whose elements are linked to the program text. In this paper we represent the empirical results of the effects of using these hypertextual structures in relation to a set of sample information requests. The results indicate significantly better task performance as compared to using Program comprehension [6, 19, 211 is a process which aims to enhance the level of knowledge about issues which are important to the fulfillment of programming and maintenance tasks. The relation between software maintenance and program comprehension is such that typically program comprehension is needed in order to perform software maintenance tasks successfully. Although many kinds of complex software maintenance tasks and ways to categorize them exist, at the basic level most of them require information access from the program text in order to be performed
Year
DOI
Venue
1999
10.1109/WPC.1999.777755
IWPC
Keywords
Field
DocType
program text,information access,software engineer,software maintenance,hypertext-based software maintenance support,program comprehension,complex software maintenance task,sample information request,empirical evaluation,maintenance task,hypertextual information access,software maintenance task,system testing,computer science,documentation,information need,reverse engineering,software systems,data structures,software engineering,information systems,software testing
Information system,Hypertext,Information needs,Software engineering,Information retrieval,Hypermedia,Computer science,Information access,Software system,Theoretical computer science,Software,Software maintenance
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1092-8138
0-7695-0179-6
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
16
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jussi Koskinen112213.44