DocumentCode
1788240
Title
CodeGraffiti: Using hand-drawn sketches connected to code bases in navigation tasks
Author
Lichtschlag, Leonhard ; Spychalski, Lukas ; Bochers, Jan
fYear
2014
fDate
July 28 2014-Aug. 1 2014
Firstpage
65
Lastpage
68
Abstract
Current IDEs excel at text manipulation, but offer little support for sketching and capturing informal visual artifacts that developers create during their work on the code base. Such artifacts promise to help the examination of existing source bases and the orientation therein when linked up to corresponding code fragments. In this paper, we present a design and prototype how to use linked sketches to assist the the developer in orientating in the code base. Our evaluation with 32 users shows that testers adopt the navigation through linked sketches and refer to the spatial documentation significantly more.
Keywords
program visualisation; source code (software); visual languages; CodeGraffiti; IDE; code bases; code fragments; hand-drawn sketches; informal visual artifacts; linked sketches; navigation tasks; source bases examination; spatial documentation; text manipulation; Interviews; Joining processes; Navigation; Prototypes; Software; Software engineering; Visualization;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC), 2014 IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location
Melbourne, VIC
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/VLHCC.2014.6883024
Filename
6883024
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