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  • Software history under the lens : a study on why and how developers examine it

    Creator:
    Codoban, Mihai, Srinivasa Ragavan, Sruti, Dig, Danny, and Bailey, Brian
    Abstract:
    Despite software history being indispensable for developers, there is little empirical knowledge about how they examine software history. Without such knowledge, researchers and tool builders are in danger of making wrong assumptions and building inadequate tools. In this paper we present an in-depth empirical study about the motivations developers have...
    Resource Type:
    Technical Report
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    Software History Under the Lens: A Study on Why and How

  • Version Control Systems: An Information Foraging Perspective

    Creator:
    Srinivasa Ragavan, Sruti
    Abstract:
    Software history and version control systems (VCS) are an important source of information for developers. This entails the need for a principled understanding of developers’ information seeking in VCS, both for improving existing tools as well as understanding requirements for new tools. However, it is only recently that researchers have...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    information for developers. This importance entails the need for a principled understanding of developers

  • Variations Foraging

    Creator:
    Srinivasa Ragavan, Sruti
    Abstract:
    Information Foraging Theory (IFT) has successfully explained how people seek information in various domains, in turn, informing the design of several tools and information-intensive environments. However, prior research has not explored foraging in the presence of several, very similar variants of the same artifact. Such variants are commonplace in several...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    Srinivasa Ragavan A DISSERTATION submitted to Oregon State University