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Information Foraging Theory as a Unifying Foundation for Software Engineering Research : Connecting the Dots

Creator:

Piorkowski, David

Abstract:

Empirical studies have shown that programmers spend up to one-third of their time navigating through code during debugging. Although researchers have conducted empirical studies to understand programmers’ navigation difficulties and developed tools to address those difficulties, the resulting findings tend to be loosely connected to each other. To address this...

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Dissertation
Modeling programmer navigation : an empirical evaluation of predictive models

Creator:

Piorkowski, David

Abstract:

Software developers frequently need to perform code maintenance tasks, but doing so requires time-consuming navigation through code. A variety of tools are aimed at easing this navigation by using models to predict places in the code that a developer might want to visit, and then providing shortcuts so that the...

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Masters Thesis
Helping end-user programmers help themselves : the idea garden approach

Creator:

Cao, Chen

Abstract:

End-user programmers face many barriers in programming. Research has seen many programming environments that attempted to lower or remove the barriers but despite these efforts, empirical studies continue to report barriers users face. To investigate this issue, we took a theory-informed approach. Using theories from design, creativity, and problem solving...

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Dissertation