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User-Centred Requirements for Software Engineering Environments

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1994

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Editors:
  1. David J. Gilmore

    1. Department of Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

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  2. Russel L. Winder

    1. Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, UK

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  3. Françoise Détienne

    1. Projet de Psychologie Ergonomique pour I’Informatique, INRIA, Le Chesnay Cedex, France

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Part of the book series: NATO ASI Subseries F: (NATO ASI F, volume 123)

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Table of contents (25 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • David Gilmore
      Pages 1-3

  3. Design Activities and Representations for Design

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-9
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    2. From Individuals to Groups Through Artifacts: The Changing Semantics of Design in Software Development

      • Simon P. Davies, Adrian M. Castell
      Pages 11-23

    3. Planning and Organization in Expert Design Activities

      • Willemien Visser
      Pages 25-39

    4. Views and Representations for Reverse Engineering

      • Henk J. van Zuylen
      Pages 41-56

    5. Strategy Analysis: An Approach to Psychological Analysis of Artifacts

      • R. K. E. Bellamy
      Pages 57-67

    6. Constraints on Design: Language, Environment and Code Representation

      • Françoise Détienne
      Pages 69-79

    7. Designing the Working Process — What Programmers Do Beside Programming

      • Jörg Strübing
      Pages 81-90

    8. Modelling Cognitive Behaviour in Specification Understanding

      • Francisco C. Simplício Filho
      Pages 91-97

  4. Code Representation and Manipulation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-106
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    2. Does the Notation Matter?

      • David Gilmore
      Pages 107-117

    3. The Effect of the Mental Representation of Programming Knowledge on Transfer

      • Jean Scholtz
      Pages 119-126

    4. Textual Tree (Prolog) Tracer: An Experimental Evaluation

      • Mukesh J. Patel, Chris Taylor, Benedict du Boulay
      Pages 127-141

    5. Longitudinal Studies of the Relation of Programmer Expertise and Role-expressiveness to Program Comprehension

      • Barbee Teasley, Laura Marie Leventhal, Keith Instone, Diane Schertler Rohlman
      Pages 143-163

    6. Search Through Multiple Representations

      • Robert S. Rist
      Pages 165-176

    7. User-Centered Requirements for Reverse Engineering Tools

      • Ray Waddington
      Pages 177-183

    8. Why Industry Doesn’t Use the Wonderful Notations We Researchers Have Given Them to Reason About Their Designs

      • Andrew Monk, Martin Curry, Peter Wright
      Pages 185-188

  5. Technological Solutions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 193-196
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    2. Viz: A Framework for Describing and Implementing Software Visualization Systems

      • John Domingue, Blaine A. Price, Marc Eisenstadt
      Pages 197-212
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About this book

The idea for this workshop originated when I came across and read Martin Zelkowitz's book on Requirements for Software Engineering Environments (the proceedings of a small workshop held at the University of Maryland in 1986). Although stimulated by the book I was also disappointed in that it didn't adequately address two important questions - "Whose requirements are these?" and "Will the environment which meets all these requirements be usable by software engineers?". And thus was the decision made to organise this workshop which would explicitly address these two questions. As time went by setting things up, it became clear that our workshop would happen more than five years after the Maryland workshop and thus, at the same time as addressing the two questions above, this workshop would attempt to update the Zelkowitz approach. Hence the workshop acquired two halves, one dominated by discussion of what we already know about usability problems in software engineering and the other by discussion of existing solutions (technical and otherwise) to these problems. This scheme also provided a good format for bringing together those in the HeI community concerned with the human factors of software engineering and those building tools to solve acknowledged, but rarely understood problems.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

    David J. Gilmore

  • Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, UK

    Russel L. Winder

  • Projet de Psychologie Ergonomique pour I’Informatique, INRIA, Le Chesnay Cedex, France

    Françoise Détienne

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