Supporting Task-oriented Navigation in IDEs with Configurable HeatMaps

Röthlisberger, David; Nierstrasz, Oscar; Ducasse, Stéphane; Pollet, Damien; Robbes, Romain (2009). Supporting Task-oriented Navigation in IDEs with Configurable HeatMaps. In: The 16th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension (pp. 253-257). Washington, DC: IEEE Computer Society

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Mainstream IDEs generally rely on the static structure of a software project to support browsing and navigation. We propose HeatMaps, a simple but highly configurable technique to enrich the way an IDE displays the static structure of a software system with additional kinds of information. A heatmap highlights software artifacts according to various metric values, such as bright red or pale blue, to indicate their potential degree of interest. We present a prototype system that implements heatmaps, and we describe an initial study that assesses the degree to which different heatmaps effectively guide developers in navigating software.

Item Type:

Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)

Division/Institute:

08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Computer Science (INF)
08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Computer Science (INF) > Software Composition Group (SCG) [discontinued]

UniBE Contributor:

Röthlisberger, David, Nierstrasz, Oscar

Publisher:

IEEE Computer Society

Language:

English

Submitter:

Factscience Import

Date Deposited:

04 Oct 2013 15:22

Last Modified:

02 Mar 2023 23:23

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.37166

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/37166 (FactScience: 207115)

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