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

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User-Centred Requirements for Software Engineering Environments

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Theories of expert program comprehension generally fall into one of two categories: bottom-up or top-down. While evidence exists to support both types of theories, we propose that Gilmore & Green’s concept of role-expressiveness may explain certain contradictory findings.

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Teasley, B., Leventhal, L.M., Instone, K., Rohlman, D.S. (1994). Longitudinal Studies of the Relation of Programmer Expertise and Role-expressiveness to Program Comprehension. In: Gilmore, D.J., Winder, R.L., DĂ©tienne, F. (eds) User-Centred Requirements for Software Engineering Environments. NATO ASI Series, vol 123. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03035-6_12

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