NDLI: To fix or to learn? How production bias affects developers' information foraging during debugging

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Author	Piorkowski, D. Fleming, S.D. Scaffidi, C. Burnett, M. Kwan, I. Henley, A.Z. Macbeth, J. Hill, C. Horvath, A.
Copyright Year	2015
Description	Author affiliation: Univ. of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA (Fleming, S.D.; Henley, A.Z.) \|\| Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR, USA (Piorkowski, D.; Scaffidi, C.; Burnett, M.; Kwan, I.; Hill, C.; Horvath, A.) \|\| Clemson Univ., Clemson, SC, USA (Macbeth, J.)
Abstract	Developers performing maintenance activities must balance their efforts to learn the code vs. their efforts to actually change it. This balancing act is consistent with the “production bias” that, according to Carroll's minimalist learning theory, generally affects software users during everyday tasks. This suggests that developers' focus on efficiency should have marked effects on how they forage for the information they think they need to fix bugs. To investigate how developers balance fixing versus learning during debugging, we conducted the first empirical investigation of the interplay between production bias and information foraging. Our theory-based study involved 11 participants: half tasked with fixing a bug, and half tasked with learning enough to help someone else fix it. Despite the subtlety of difference between their tasks, participants foraged remarkably differently-making foraging decisions from different types of “patches,” with different types of information, and succeeding with different foraging tactics.
Starting Page	11
Ending Page	20
File Size	4449916
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
e-ISBN	9781467375320
DOI	10.1109/ICSM.2015.7332447
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2015-09-29
Publisher Place	Germany
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Production Encoding Debugging Maintenance engineering Software Navigation Interviews theory meets tools information foraging
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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