NDLI: Tempura: Temporal Dimension for IDEs

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Yun Young Lee Marinov, D. Johnson, R.E.
Copyright Year	2015
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA (Yun Young Lee; Marinov, D.; Johnson, R.E.)
Abstract	Modern integrated development environments (IDEs) make many software engineering tasks easier by providing automated programming support such as code completion and navigation. However, such support -- and therefore IDEs as awhole -- operate on one revision of the code at a time, and leave handling of code history to external tools or plugins, such asEGit for Eclipse. For example, when a method is removed froma class, developers can no longer find the method through code completion. This forces developers to manually switch across different revisions or resort to using external tools when they need to learn about previous code revisions.We propose a novel approach of adding a temporal dimensionto IDEs, enabling code completion and navigation to operate on multiple revisions of code at a time. We previously introduced the idea of temporal code completion and navigation,and presented a vision for how that idea may be realized.This paper realizes that vision by implementing and evaluatinga prototype tool called Tempura. We describe our algorithmfor processing and indexing historical code information from repositories for Tempura, and demonstrate Tempura's scalability with three large Eclipse projects. We also evaluate Tempura's usability through a controlled user study. The study participantslearned about the code history with more accuracy when usingTempura compared to EGit. Although the sample size was notlarge enough to provide strong statistical significance, the resultsshow a promising outlook for our approach.
Starting Page	212
Ending Page	222
File Size	934206
Page Count	11
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781479919345
DOI	10.1109/ICSE.2015.42
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2015-05-16
Publisher Place	Italy
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Proposals History Navigation Receivers Context Indexing Java
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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