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Impact and utility of smell-driven performance tuning for end-user programmers

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  • This paper proposes a technique, called Smell-driven performance tuning (SDPT), which semi-automatically assists end-user programmers with fixing performance problems in visual dataflow programming languages. A within-subjects laboratory experiment showed SDPT increased end-user programmers’ success rate and decreased the time they required. Another study, based on using SDPT to analyze a corpus of example end-user programs, demonstrated that applying all available SDPT transformations achieved an execution time improvement of 42% and a memory usage improvement of 20%, comparable to improvements that expert programmers historically had manually achieved on the same programs. These results indicate that SDPT is an effective method for helping end-user programmers to fix performance problems.
  • Keywords: Visual language, Performance, End-user programming
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  • Chambers, C., & Scaffidi, C. (2015). Impact and utility of smell-driven performance tuning for end-user programmers. Journal of Visual Languages & Computing, 28, 176-194. doi:10.1016/j.jvlc.2015.01.002
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  • We thank National Instruments for funding this research, helping to recruit study participants, and providing access to the latest version of the LabVIEW development environment.
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