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This paper reports on a software understanding experiment during corrective maintenance of large- scale software. Participants were professional software maintenance engineers. The paper reports on the general understanding process, the types of actions programmers preferred during the debugging task, and the level of abstraction at which they were working. The results of the observation are also interpreted in terms of the information needs of these software engineers during the debugging task.
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Von Mayrhauser, A., & Vans, A. M. (1997). Program understanding behavior during debugging of large scale software. In Papers Presented at the 7th Workshop on Empirical Studies of Programmers, ESP 1997 (pp. 157–179). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/266399.266414
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