DocumentCode
2042065
Title
NavTracks: supporting navigation in software maintenance
Author
Singer, Janice ; Elves, Robert ; Storey, Margaret-Anne
Author_Institution
Inst. for Inf. Technol., Nat. Res. Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ont., Canada
fYear
2005
fDate
26-29 Sept. 2005
Firstpage
325
Lastpage
334
Abstract
In this paper, we present NavTracks, a tool that supports browsing through software. NavTracks keeps track of the navigation history of software developers, forming associations between related files. These associations are then used as the basis for recommending potentially related files as a developer navigates the software system. We present the reasoning behind NavTracks, its basic algorithm, a case study, and propose some future work.
Keywords
software maintenance; software tools; NavTracks; software browsing; software developer navigation history; software maintenance; software system; Cognitive science; Computer science; History; Human computer interaction; Navigation; Software engineering; Software maintenance; Software systems; Software tools; Space exploration;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Software Maintenance, 2005. ICSM'05. Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on
ISSN
1063-6773
Print_ISBN
0-7695-2368-4
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICSM.2005.66
Filename
1510128
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