Program understanding behavior during debugging of large scale software

Mayrhauser, A. von; Vans, A.M.

doi:10.1145/266399.266414

Cited by 65 publications

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“…We believe that this is the cause of the large gap in the performance of novices and experts. This coincides with the work of von Mayrhauser and Vans [12], who found that programmers who have more domain knowledge would perform program comprehension at a higher-level abstraction. In terms of our case study, a novice might have trouble identifying the cause of the slow response to SQL query whereas an expert immediately recognizes it as the problem of creating child process.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 89%

Cognitive process during program debugging

Xu¹,

Rajlich²

2004

Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics, 2004.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 89%

Cognitive process during program debugging

Xu¹,

Rajlich²

2004

Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics, 2004.

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“…In addition, the programmer must continually switch between writing new code and understanding existing code, possibly constructed by other persons. Extensive research has aimed to find ways of supporting the programmer in these activities [11,12,17].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evaluating a fisheye view of source code

Jakobsen

Hornbæk

2006

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Navigating and understanding the source code of a program are highly challenging activities. This paper introduces a fisheye view of source code to a Java programming environment. The fisheye view aims to support a programmer's navigation and understanding by displaying those parts of the source code that have the highest degree of interest given the current focus. An experiment was conducted which compared the usability of the fisheye view with a common, linear presentation of source code. Sixteen participants performed tasks significantly faster with the fisheye view, although results varied dependent on the task type. The participants generally preferred the interface with the fisheye view. We analyse participants' interaction with the fisheye view and suggest how to improve its performance. In the calculation of the degree of interest, we suggest to emphasize those parts of the source code that are semantically related to the programmer's current focus.

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“…(The notable exception is the use of bug tracking in detailing a theory of coordination mechanisms [36].) The debugging process also has been used to probe other issues in software development, such as von Mayrhauser and Vans' [29] discussion of program understanding.…”

Section: Change Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Designing task visualizations to support the coordination of work in software development

Halverson

Ellis

Danis

et al. 2006

Proceedings of the 2006 20th Anniversary Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work

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Software development tools primarily focus on supporting the technical work. Yet no matter the tools employed, the process followed, or the size of the team, important aspects of development are non-technical, and largely unsupported. For example, increasing distribution of development teams highlights the issues of coordination and cooperation. This paper focuses on one area: managing change requests. Interviews with industry and open-source programmers were used to create designs for the visual inspection of change requests. This paper presents fieldwork findings and two designs. We conclude by reflecting on the issues that task visualizations that support social inferences address in software development.

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Program understanding behavior during debugging of large scale software

Cited by 65 publications

References 17 publications

Cognitive process during program debugging

Cognitive process during program debugging

Evaluating a fisheye view of source code

Designing task visualizations to support the coordination of work in software development

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