On the Comprehension of Program Comprehension

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• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  TSEM

• Publication date

  2014-09-05

• Fields of study

  Computer Science, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1145/2622669
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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