Author :
Robbes, Romain ; Lanza, Michele
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Inf., Univ. of Lugano, Lugano
Abstract :
Our research is driven by the motivation that change must be put in the center, if one wants to understand the complex processes of software evolution. We built a toolset named SpyWare which, using a monitoring plug-in for integrated development environments (IDEs), tracks the changes that a developer performs on a program as they happen. SpyWare stores these first-class changes in a change repository and offers a plethora of productivity-enhancing IDE extensions to exploit the recorded information.
Keywords :
invasive software; software process improvement; SpyWare; change-aware development toolset; integrated development environment; software evolution; History; Informatics; Monitoring; Packaging; Programming environments; Reverse engineering; Software systems; Software tools; Time measurement; Visualization; change; modelling; program transformation; visualization;
Conference_Titel :
Software Engineering, 2008. ICSE '08. ACM/IEEE 30th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Leipzig
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4486-1
Electronic_ISBN :
0270-5257
DOI :
10.1145/1368088.1368219
