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CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
What would other programmers do: suggesting solutions to error messages
Interpreting compiler errors and exception messages is challenging for novice programmers. Presenting examples of how other programmers have corrected similar errors may help novi...
Björn Hartmann, Daniel MacDougall, Joel Brand...
IWPC
2009
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Resumption strategies for interrupted programming tasks
Interruptions are a daily reality for professional programmers. Unfortunately, the strategies programmers use to recover lost knowledge and resume work have not yet been well stud...
Chris Parnin, Spencer Rugaber
ICSE
1997
IEEE-ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Lackwit: A Program Understanding Tool Based on Type Inference
By determining, statically, where the structure of a program requires sets of variables to share a common tation, we can identify abstract data types, detect ion violations, find ...
Robert O'Callahan, Daniel Jackson
TOOLS
2010
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
Understanding the Impact of Collection Contracts on Design
Abstract. Java provides a specification for a user-defined general purpose equivalence operator for objects, but collections such as Set have more stringent requirements. This in...
Stephen Nelson, David J. Pearce, James Noble
VL
2005
IEEE
119views Visual Languages» more  VL 2005»
14 years 20 days ago
How Well Do Professional Developers Test with Code Coverage Visualizations? An Empirical Study
Despite years of availability of testing tools, professional software developers still seem to need better support to determine the effectiveness of their tests. Without improveme...
Joseph Lawrance, Steven Clarke, Margaret M. Burnet...