SpyWare: a change-aware development toolset

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. Categories and Subject Descriptors D.2.6 [Programming Environments]: Integrated Environments; D.2.7 [Distribution, Maintenance and Enhancement]: Restructuring, Reverse Engineering, and Reengineering General Terms Design Keywords Change, Modelling, Program Transformation, Visualization

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: ICSE
• Authors: Romain Robbes, Michele Lanza
• Keywords: ICSE 2008, Integrated Development Environments, Productivity-enhancing Ide Extensions, Software Engineering, Toolset Named Spyware