CodeTopics: which topic am I coding now?

Author

Gethers, Malcom ; Savage, Trevor ; Penta, Massimiliano Di ; Oliveto, Rocco ; Poshyvanyk, Denys ; De Lucia, Andrea

Author_Institution

Comput. Sci. Dept., Coll. of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

21-28 May 2011

Firstpage

1034

Lastpage

1036

Abstract

Recent studies indicated that showing the similarity between the source code being developed and related high-level artifacts (HLAs), such as requirements, helps developers improve the quality of source code identifiers. In this paper, we present CodeTopics, an Eclipse plug-in that in addition to showing the similarity between source code and HLAs also highlights to what extent the code under development covers topics described in HLAs. Such views complement information derived by showing only the similarity between source code and HLAs helping (i) developers to identify functionality that are not implemented yet or (ii) newcomers to comprehend source code artifacts by showing them the topics that these artifacts relate to.

Keywords

reverse engineering; software quality; software tools; CodeTopics; Eclipse plug-in; high-level artifacts; source code artifacts comprehension; source code identifier quality; Educational institutions; Games; Information retrieval; Java; Monopoly; Object oriented modeling; Software; program comprehension; source code lexicon; traceability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering (ICSE), 2011 33rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

ISSN

0270-5257

Print_ISBN

978-1-4503-0445-0

Electronic_ISBN

0270-5257

Type

conf

DOI

10.1145/1985793.1985988

Filename

6032585