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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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Grigoreanu, Valentina, Cao, Jill, Kulesza, Todd, Bogart, Christopher, Rector, Kyle, Burnett, Margaret M. and Wiedenbeck, Susan (2008): Can feature design reduce the gender gap in end-user software development environments?. In: VL-HCC 2008 - IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing 15-19 September, 2008, Herrsching am Ammersee, Germany. pp. 149-156. Available online

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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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Beckwith, Laura, Inman, Derek, Rector, Kyle and Burnett, Margaret M. (2007): On to the Real World: Gender and Self-Efficacy in Excel. In: VL-HCC 2007 - IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing 23-27 September, 2007, Coeur dAlene, Idaho, USA. pp. 119-126. Available online

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Subrahmaniyan, Neeraja, Kissinger, Cory, Rector, Kyle, Inman, Derek, Kaplan, Jared, Beckwith, Laura and Burnett, Margaret M. (2007): Explaining Debugging Strategies to End-User Programmers. In: VL-HCC 2007 - IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing 23-27 September, 2007, Coeur dAlene, Idaho, USA. pp. 127-136. Available online

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Publication statistics

Publication period:2007-2008
Publication count:5
Number of co-authors:16



Productive colleagues

Kyle Rector'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
Joseph Lawrance:2
Laura Beckwith:2

 

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