Exploiting Dynamic Information in IDEs Improves Speed and Correctness of Software Maintenance Tasks
| Autor: | Marcel Harry, Alex Villazón, Philippe Moret, Danilo Ansaloni, David Röthlisberger, Walter Binder, Oscar Nierstrasz |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Reverse engineering
Object-oriented programming Source code Correctness Java business.industry Computer science media_common.quotation_subject 020207 software engineering 02 engineering and technology Software maintenance computer.software_genre Dynamic programming 020204 information systems 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Software system Software engineering business computer Software media_common Eclipse computer.programming_language |
| Zdroj: | IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering |
| ISSN: | 0098-5589 |
| DOI: | 10.1109/tse.2011.42 |
| Popis: | Modern IDEs such as Eclipse offer static views of the source code, but such views ignore information about the runtime behavior of software systems. Since typical object-oriented systems make heavy use of polymorphism and dynamic binding, static views will miss key information about the runtime architecture. In this paper, we present an approach to gather and integrate dynamic information in the Eclipse IDE with the goal of better supporting typical software maintenance activities. By means of a controlled experiment with 30 professional developers, we show that for typical software maintenance tasks, integrating dynamic information into the Eclipse IDE yields a significant 17.5 percent decrease of time spent while significantly increasing the correctness of the solutions by 33.5 percent. We also provide a comprehensive performance evaluation of our approach. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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