collect relevant information, such as web pages, textual notes, and code frag-ments. JASPER is a new system that allows users to collect rele-vant artifacts into a working set for easy reference. These artifacts are visible in a single view that represents the user's current task and allows users

My primary research interest is the study of computer programming from a human cognition perspective to create practical tools for improving everyday software development. I am also interested in empirical software engineering, agile software development, and social aspects of computer science education. Much of my previous research has focu sed on industrial case studies to empirically assess the efficacy of agile software development techniques. I have also studied the sociological and pedagogical issues surrounding women and minorities in computer science education.

A common problem in software maintenance is the lack of documentation required for carrying out the maintenance tasks. Both expected and unexpected maintenance tasks use and produce important information, which is not systematically recorded during the evolution of a system. As a result

Abstract — Evaluation of software maintenance tasks can significantly contribute to the efficiency of maintenance management, which is recognized as the most costly part of the software life cycle. This paper presents an approach to evaluation of software maintenance tasks based on fuzzy screening

NedTrain is a Dutch company tasked with performing the maintenance of the rolling stock of the national railway company, NS. NedTrain owns several workshops at different locations. The scheduling in one such workshop will be taken as point of departure for the discussion in this paper. After

In this paper, the problem of maintenance task scheduling is tackled with a twofold objective: meeting the performance criteria of a company and taking into account some operators ’ require-ments. The production manager makes sure that makespan is optimised while developing opera-tors ’ flexibility

Abstract—When developers perform a software maintenance task, they need to identify artifacts—e.g., classes or more specif-ically methods—that need to be modified. To this aim, they can browse various kind of artifacts, for example use case descriptions, UML diagrams, or source code. This paper

the maintenance time and enhance the productivity. By properly allocate the maintenance activities. So as to achieve this target, critical path method (CPM) is applied for the calculation of Optimum maintenance time & The new technique line balancing which is used in manufacturing for allocation of task

Recently, several innovative tools have found their way into mainstream use in modern development environments. However, most of these tools have focused on creating and modifying code, despite evidence that most of programmers' time is spent understanding code as part of maintenance tasks

A significant problem in many information filtering systems is the dependence on the user for the creation and maintenance of a user profile, which describes the user's interests. NewsWeeder is a netnews-filtering system that addresses this problem by letting the user rate his or her interest