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Speculative analysis of integrated development environment recommendations

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Kıvanç Muşlu,

Michael D. Ernst,

David NotkinAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 47, Issue 10

Pages 669 - 682

https://doi.org/10.1145/2398857.2384665

Published: 19 October 2012 Publication History

Abstract

Modern integrated development environments make recommendations and automate common tasks, such as refactorings, auto-completions, and error corrections. However, these tools present little or no information about the consequences of the recommended changes. For example, a rename refactoring may: modify the source code without changing program semantics; modify the source code and (incorrectly) change program semantics; modify the source code and (incorrectly) create compilation errors; show a name collision warning and require developer input; or show an error and not change the source code. Having to compute the consequences of a recommendation -- either mentally or by making source code changes -- puts an extra burden on the developers. This paper aims to reduce this burden with a technique that informs developers of the consequences of code transformations. Using Eclipse Quick Fix as a domain, we describe a plug-in, Quick Fix Scout, that computes the consequences of Quick Fix recommendations. In our experiments, developers completed compilation-error removal tasks 10% faster when using Quick Fix Scout than Quick Fix, although the sample size was not large enough to show statistical significance.

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Speculative analysis of integrated development environment recommendations
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. Development frameworks and environments
      1. Integrated and visual development environments

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 47, Issue 10

OOPSLA '12

October 2012

1011 pages

ISSN:0362-1340

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DOI:10.1145/2398857

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OOPSLA '12: Proceedings of the ACM international conference on Object oriented programming systems languages and applications
October 2012
1052 pages
ISBN:9781450315616
DOI:10.1145/2384616
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