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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...

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Dissertation
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...

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Masters Thesis
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...

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Technical Report