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Software engineering

the contrast between reading a whole program to understand it and reading only the parts a task needs, linked to maintenance success.

In software engineering, as-needed comprehension strategy refers to the contrast between reading a whole program to understand it and reading only the parts a task needs, linked to maintenance success. This meaning comes from Littman (1987) in Journal of Systems and Software.[1]

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Littman, D. C., Pinto, J., Letovsky, S., & Soloway, E. (1987). Mental models and software maintenance. Journal of Systems and Software, 7(4), 341-355. https://doi.org/10.1016/0164-1212(87)90033-1

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