Workshop on graphical documentation for programmers

Scott Tilley; Ken Wong

doi:10.1145/584955.584989

Workshop on graphical documentation for programmers

Scott Tilley^*, Ken Wong

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Programmers often use graphical forms of documentation that rely on software visualization techniques to make complicated information easier to understand. However, it is an open question exactly which types of graphical documentation are most suitable for which types of program understanding tasks (and in which specific usage contexts). This workshop will focus on this issue by exploring the suitability of three classes of graphical documentation (static, interactive, and editable) for selected program understanding tasks that are representative of common software maintenance and evolution scenarios. This workshop is a sequel to the workshop ";Documentation for Software Engineers: What is Needed to Aid System Understanding?"; which took place at SIGDOC 2001.

Original language	English
Pages	234-235
Number of pages	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/584955.584989
Publication status	Published - 2002
Externally published	Yes
Event	Proceedings of the 20th Annual International Conference on Documentation - Toronto, Canada Duration: 20 Oct 2002 → 23 Oct 2002

Conference

Conference	Proceedings of the 20th Annual International Conference on Documentation
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Toronto
Period	20/10/02 → 23/10/02

Keywords

Documentation
Program understanding
Visualization

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