How Engineers in the Domain of SW Engineering Search for Information

This book about how engineers and persons in the domain of software engineering search for information. It mainly builds upon a qualitative field study conducted with twenty face-to-face interviews. Findings of the study are put into historical context to analyse how search patterns changed due to the high increase in digitized documents available within company archives as well as outside sources. Among others, one outcome of the study is the different search behaviour of younger generations and older persons. Another potential finding is the identification of a trend from structured data catalogues towards unstructured data container where information is found using powerful search functions. An outlook on how future search functions may help improve information lookup is given in the final section of the thesis.