NDLI: Attacking information overload in software development

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Murphy, G.
Copyright Year	2009
Description	Author affiliation: University of British Columbia (Murphy, G.)
Abstract	The productivity of software developers is under constant attack due to a continual inundation of information: source code is easier and easier to traverse and to find, email inboxes are stuffed to capacity, RSS feeds and tweets provide a continual stream of technology updates, and so on. To enable software developers to work more effectively, tools are often introduced that provide even more information. The effect of more and more tools producing more and more information is placing developers into overload. To combat this overload, we have been building approaches rooted in structure and inspired by human memory models. As an example, the Mylyn project packages and makes available the structure that emerges from how a programmer works in an episodic-memory inspired interface. Programmers working with Mylyn see only the information they need for a task and can recall past task information with a simple click. We have shown in a field study that Mylyn makes programmers more productive; the half a million programmers now using Mylyn seem to agree. In this talk, I will describe the overload faced by programmers today and discuss several approaches we have developed to attack the problem, some of which may also pertain beyond the domain of software development.
Starting Page	4
Ending Page	4
File Size	179780
Page Count	1
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424448760
ISSN	19436092
DOI	10.1109/VLHCC.2009.5295312
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2009-09-20
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Programming profession Productivity Feeds Software tools Buildings Humans Packaging
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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