NavTracks: Supporting Navigation in Software

Singer, Janice; Elves, Robert; Storey, Margaret-Anne

doi:10.1109/wpc.2005.25

Cited by 25 publications

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“…NavTracks is an Eclipse plug-in introduced by Singer et al [34] which captures the navigation patters of a developer working in Eclipse. Although theoretically they could replay the navigation, they do not do it; and even if they did, since the navigation is stored locally, replaying other developers' changes would not be possible.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Replaying past changes in multi-developer projects

Hattori

Lungu

Lanza

2010

Proceedings of the Joint ERCIM Workshop on Software Evolution (EVOL) and International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolu

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What was I working on before the weekend? and What were the members of the my team working on during the last week? are common questions that are frequently asked by a developer. They can be answered if one keeps track of who changes what in the source code. In this work, we present Replay, a tool that allows one to replay past changes as they happened at a fine-grained level, where a developer can watch what she has done or understand what her colleagues have done in past development sessions. With this tool, developers are able to not only understand what sequence of changes brought the system to a certain state (e.g., the introduction of a defect), but also deduce reasons for why her colleagues performed those changes. One of the applications of such a tool is also discovering the changes that broke the code of a developer.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Replaying past changes in multi-developer projects

Hattori

Lungu

Lanza

2010

Proceedings of the Joint ERCIM Workshop on Software Evolution (EVOL) and International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolu

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“…Each subject will be asked to numerically evaluate NavClus (1)(2)(3)(4)(5) and to describe about any past experience dealing with diagramming tools and experience with NavClus.…”

Section: Evaluation Planmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, these tools only address the first problem, developer disorientation [1]: these tools remind developers where they have visited, but cannot suggest unvisited locations to explore further. NavTracks suggests files to visit, but limits its visualization to showing clusters of visited files [5].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

NavClus: A graphical recommender for assisting code exploration

Lee

Kang

Staats

2013

2013 35th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)

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Abstract-Recently, several graphical tools have been proposed to help developers avoid becoming disoriented when working with large software projects. These tools visualize the locations that developers have visited, allowing them to quickly recall where they have already visited. However, developers also spend a significant amount of time exploring source locations to visit, which is a task that is not currently supported by existing tools. In this work, we propose a graphical code recommender NavClus, which helps developers find relevant, unexplored source locations to visit. NavClus operates by mining a developer's daily interaction traces, comparing the developer's current working context with previously seen contexts, and then predicting relevant source locations to visit. These locations are displayed graphically along with the already explored locations in a class diagram. As a result, with NavClus developers can quickly find, reach, and focus on source locations relevant to their working contexts.

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“…Fritz et al conducted an empirical study assessing the relationship between programmers activity and what a programmer knows about a code base [13] and DeLine et al report results of two studies which demonstrate that sharing navigation data can improve program comprehension "and is subjectively preferred by users" [14]. Both Mylyn [15] and NavTracks [16] are navigation aids based on what the programmer is currently looking at in the IDE, to recommend other entities to look at. Additionally, a study by Robbes on recommender systems based on recorded interactions [17], recognizes the lack of support for interaction annotations.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Combining micro-blogging and IDE interactions to support developers in their quests

Guzzi

Pinzger

Deursen

2010

2010 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance

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Software engineers spend a considerable amount of time on program comprehension. Although vendors of Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) and analysis tools address this challenge, current support for storing and sharing program comprehension knowledge is limited. As a consequence, developers have to go through the time-consuming programing understanding phase multiple times, instead of recalling the knowledge from their past or other's program comprehension activities.In this paper, we aim at making the knowledge gained during the program comprehension process accessible, by combining two sources of information. Inspired by the success of Twitter, we first of all encourage developers to micro-blog about their activities, telling their team mates (as well as themselves) what they are working on. Second, we combine these short messages with automatically collected interaction data on, e.g., classes, methods, and work products inspected or modified by developers. We present the underlying approach, as well as its client-server implementation in an Eclipse plugin called James. We conduct a first evaluation of its effectiveness, assessing the nature and usefulness of the collected messages, as well as the added benefit of combining them with interaction data.

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NavTracks: Supporting Navigation in Software

Cited by 25 publications

References 8 publications

Replaying past changes in multi-developer projects

Replaying past changes in multi-developer projects

NavClus: A graphical recommender for assisting code exploration

Combining micro-blogging and IDE interactions to support developers in their quests

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