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Searching across paths

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Thomas D. LaToza,

Brad A. MyersAuthors Info & Claims

SUITE '10: Proceedings of 2010 ICSE Workshop on Search-driven Development: Users, Infrastructure, Tools and Evaluation

Pages 29 - 32

https://doi.org/10.1145/1809175.1809183

Published: 01 May 2010 Publication History

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Observations of developers indicate that developers try to answer a variety of questions by searching across control flow paths through a program for statements matching search criteria. We believe that tools that better support this activity can help developers answer these questions more easily, quickly, and accurately.

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Karrer TKrämer JDiehl JHartmann BBorchers JPierce JAgrawala MKlemmer S(2011)StacksplorerProceedings of the 24th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology10.1145/2047196.2047225(217-224)Online publication date: 16-Oct-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2047196.2047225
LaToza TMyers BDittrich Yde Souza CKorpela MSharp HSinger JWinshiers-Theophilus H(2010)On the importance of understanding the strategies that developers useProceedings of the 2010 ICSE Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering10.1145/1833310.1833322(72-75)Online publication date: 2-May-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1833310.1833322

Index Terms

Searching across paths
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Software management
        Software maintenance
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software post-development issues
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Development frameworks and environments

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SUITE '10: Proceedings of 2010 ICSE Workshop on Search-driven Development: Users, Infrastructure, Tools and Evaluation

May 2010

60 pages

ISBN:9781605589626

DOI:10.1145/1809175

Conference Chairs:
Sushil Bajracharya
University of California at Irvine, USA
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Adrian Kuhn
University of Bern, Switzerland
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Yunen Ye
Software Research Associates Inc., Japan

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Karrer TKrämer JDiehl JHartmann BBorchers JPierce JAgrawala MKlemmer S(2011)StacksplorerProceedings of the 24th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology10.1145/2047196.2047225(217-224)Online publication date: 16-Oct-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2047196.2047225
LaToza TMyers BDittrich Yde Souza CKorpela MSharp HSinger JWinshiers-Theophilus H(2010)On the importance of understanding the strategies that developers useProceedings of the 2010 ICSE Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering10.1145/1833310.1833322(72-75)Online publication date: 2-May-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1833310.1833322

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