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Lawrance, Joseph, Bellamy, Rachel, Burnett, Margaret and Rector, Kyle (2008): Using information scent to model the dynamic foraging behavior of programmers in maintenance tasks. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems April 5-10, 2008. pp. 1323-1332. Available online

In recent years, the software engineering community has begun to study program navigation and tools to support it. Some of these navigation tools are very useful, but they lack a theoretical basis that could reduce the need for ad hoc tool building approaches by explaining what is fundamentally necessary in such tools. In this paper, we present PFIS (Programmer Flow by Information Scent), a model and algorithm of programmer navigation during software maintenance. We also describe an experimental study of expert programmers debugging real bugs described in real bug reports for a real Java application. We found that PFIS' performance was close to aggregated human decisions as to where to navigate, and was significantly better than individual programmers' decisions.

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Lawrance, Joseph, Bellamy, Rachel K. E., Bumett, Margaret and Rector, Kyle (2008): Can information foraging pick the fix? A field study. In: VL-HCC 2008 - IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing 15-19 September, 2008, Herrsching am Ammersee, Germany. pp. 57-64. Available online

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Lawrance, Joseph, Bellamy, Rachel K. E. and Burnett, Margaret M. (2007): Scents in Programs: Does Information Foraging Theory Apply to Program Maintenance?. In: VL-HCC 2007 - IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing 23-27 September, 2007, Coeur dAlene, Idaho, USA. pp. 15-22. Available online

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Beckwith, Laura, Kissinger, Cory, Burnett, Margaret, Wiedenbeck, Susan, Lawrance, Joseph, Blackwell, Alan and Cook, Curtis (2006): Tinkering and gender in end-user programmers' debugging. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2006 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2006. pp. 231-240. Available online

Earlier research on gender effects with software features intended to help problem-solvers in end-user debugging environments has shown that females are less likely to use unfamiliar software features. This poses a serious problem because these features may be key to helping them with debugging problems. Contrasting this with research documenting males' inclination for tinkering in unfamiliar environments, the question arises as to whether encouraging tinkering with new features would help females overcome the factors, such as low self-efficacy, that led to the earlier results. In this paper, we present an experiment with males and females in an end-user debugging setting, and investigate how tinkering behavior impacts several measures of their debugging success. Our results show that the factors of tinkering, reflection, and self-efficacy, can combine in multiple ways to impact debugging effectiveness differently for males than for females.

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Lawrance, Joseph (2006): Using Programming by Demonstration to Reorganize User Interfaces. In: VL-HCC 2006 - IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing 4-8 September, 2006, Brighton, UK. pp. 238-239. Available online

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Lawrance, Joseph, Abraham, Robin, Burnett, Margaret M. and Erwig, Martin (2006): Sharing reasoning about faults in spreadsheets: An empirical study. In: VL-HCC 2006 - IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing 4-8 September, 2006, Brighton, UK. pp. 35-42. Available online

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Lawrance, Joseph, Clarke, Steven, Burnett, Margaret M. and Rothermel, Gregg (2005): How Well Do Professional Developers Test with Code Coverage Visualizations? An Empirical Study. In: VL-HCC 2005 - IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing 21-24 September, 2005, Dallas, TX, USA. pp. 53-60. Available online

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Publication statistics

Publication period:2005-2008
Publication count:7
Number of co-authors:15



Productive colleagues

Joseph Lawrance's 3 most productive colleagues in number of publications:

Susan Wiedenbeck:57
Margaret M. Burnett:48
Margaret Burnett:20


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Number of publications with 3 favourite co-authors:

Margaret M. Burnett:3
Rachel K. E. Bellamy:2
Kyle Rector:2

 

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