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The Love/Hate Relationship with the C Preprocessor: An Interview Study (Artifact)

Authors Flávio Medeiros, Christian Kästner, Márcio Ribeiro, Sarah Nadi, Rohit Gheyi

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  • C Preprocessor
  • CPP
  • Interviews
  • Surveys
  • and Grounded Theory

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This appendix presents detailed information about the research methods we used in the study, subject characterization, grounded theory process that we followed strictly, and the survey we performed in the study. It provides helpful data for understanding the subtler points of the companion paper and for reproducibility.

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Flávio Medeiros, Christian Kästner, Márcio Ribeiro, Sarah Nadi, and Rohit Gheyi. The Love/Hate Relationship with the C Preprocessor: An Interview Study (Artifact). In Special Issue of the 29th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2015). Dagstuhl Artifacts Series (DARTS), Volume 1, Issue 1, pp. 7:1-7:32, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2015) https://doi.org/10.4230/DARTS.1.1.7

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Flávio Medeiros
Christian Kästner
Márcio Ribeiro
Sarah Nadi
Rohit Gheyi

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  • Flávio Medeiros, Christian Kästner, Márcio Ribeiro, Sarah Nadi, and Rohit Gheyi, "The Love/Hate Relationship with the C Preprocessor: An Interview Study", in 29th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2015), LIPIcs, Vol. 37, pp. 495-518, 2015. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2015.495

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