Software Design - Cognitive Aspects covers a variety of areas including software analysis, design, coding and maintenance. It details the history of the research that has been conducted since the 1970s in this fast-developing field before defining a computer program from a computing and cognitive psychology viewpoint. Detailed treatment is given to the two essential sides of programming; software production and software understanding and throughout the book parallels are drawn between studies on processing texts written in natural language and processing computer programs.
This book will be of particular interest to researchers, practitioners and graduate students in Computer Science, Cognitive Psychology, and Cognitive Ergonomics.

1 Historical Background.- 2 What Is a Computer Program?.- 3 Software Design: Theoretical Approaches.- 4 Software Reuse.- 5 Design and Reuse of Object-Oriented Software: the Effect of a Programming Paradigm.- 6 Understanding Software.- 7 Understanding Software: Effects of the Task and the Textual Structure.- 8 The Future for Programming Psychology.