CAREER: Information Sources for Software Maintenance

提案9984047卡罗琳B，马里兰州巴尔的摩县大学职业生涯：软件维护的信息源这个项目包括一系列的实证研究，以了解软件维护人员如何获得有关系统维护的信息，其目标是提高维护过程的质量和生产力。 它首先探索性地调查需要考虑哪些因素，包括有效性的适当措施，信息来源的操作定义，以及其他相关变量的识别。 然后研究当前的维护实践，以确定哪些资源是高效的，有效的，并在不同的情况下可用。 最后，基于探索性工作的结果，提出了维修实践的改进措施，并进行了实证验证。研究设计采用了各种各样的研究方法，以三角测量结果和权衡不同的威胁有效性。 工业界的参与至关重要，不仅是为了取得有效和有益的成果，而且是为了确保实现这项工作的重大长期潜力。 这项工作还包括一个教育组成部分，由两个主要活动：开发一个软件工程课程集中在生命周期的后期阶段（强调维护），并在软件工程研究的研究生和本科生的广泛参与。

Proposal 9984047Seaman, Carolyn B.University of Maryland Baltimore CountyCAREER: Information Sources for Software MaintenanceThis project consists of a series of empirical studies to understand how software maintainers gain information about the systems being maintained, with the goal of improving the quality and productivity of maintenance processes in general. It begins with an exploratory investigation of what factors need to be considered, including appropriate measures of effectiveness, an operational definition of information source, and identification of other relevant variables. Then current maintenance practices are studied to determine what sources are efficient, effective, and available in different situations. Finally, based on the results of the exploratory work, improvements to maintenance practice are proposed and empirically validated. The study designs incorporate a wide variety of research methods in order to triangulate findings and trade off different threats to validity. Industrial participation is crucial, not only to obtain valid and useful results, but also to ensure that the significant long-term potential of this work is realized. This work also includes an educational component consisting of two major activities: development of a software engineering course concentrating on the latter stages of the lifecycle (emphasizing maintenance), and extensive involvement of graduate and undergraduate students in software engineering research.