Visualizing Developer Interactions

Author

Minelli, Roberto ; Mocci, Andrea ; Lanza, Mario ; Baracchi, Lorenzo

Author_Institution

REVEAL @ Fac. of Inf., Univ. of Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland

fYear

2014

fDate

29-30 Sept. 2014

Firstpage

147

Lastpage

156

Abstract

Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) have become the de facto standard vehicle to develop software systems. The user interface (UI) of an IDE offers a staggering amount of facilities to manipulate source code, such as inspectors, debuggers, recommenders, alternative viewers, etc. It is unclear how developers use the UI of an IDE and whether such UIs actually give appropriate support to the developers. We present a visual approach to understand and characterize development sessions from the UI perspective. The tool supporting our approach mines and processes the finest-grained UI-level events making up development sessions and presents them visually. We have collected, visualized, and analyzed hundreds of development sessions and report on our findings.

Keywords

data mining; data visualisation; programming environments; software engineering; source code (software); user interfaces; IDE; developer interaction visualization; finest-grained UI-level event mining; finest-grained UI-level event processing; integrated development environments; software systems; source code; user interface; visual approach; Containers; Data visualization; Debugging; Inspection; Navigation; Tracking; Visualization; IDE; comprehension; interaction; visual storytelling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Visualization (VISSOFT), 2014 Second IEEE Working Conference on

Conference_Location

Victoria, BC

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VISSOFT.2014.31

Filename

6980226