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An empirical investigation of the effects of type systems and code completion on API usability using TypeScript and JavaScript in MS visual studio

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Hanenberg, Stefan Fischer, Lars
Abstract	Recent empirical studies that compared static and dynamic type systems on API usability showed a positive impact of static type systems on developer productivity in most cases. Nevertheless, it is unclear how large this effect is in comparison to other factors. One obvious factor in programming is tooling: It is commonly accepted that modern IDEs have a large positive impact on developers, although it is not clear which parts of modern IDEs are responsible for that. One possible---and for most developers obvious candidate---is code completion. This paper describes a 2x2 randomized trial that compares JavaScript and Microsoft's statically typed alternative TypeScript with and without code completion in MS Visual Studio. While the experiment shows (in correspondence to previous experiments) a large positive effect of the statically typed language TypeScript, the code completion effect is not only marginal, but also just approaching statistical significance. This seems to be an indicator that the effect of static type systems is larger than often assumed, at least in comparison to code completion. .
Starting Page	154
Ending Page	167
Page Count	14
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781450336901
DOI	10.1145/2816707.2816720
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2015-10-21
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Empirical research Type systems Programming languages Code completion
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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