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Using task context to improve programmer productivity

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Using task context to improve programmer productivity
When working on a large software system, a programmer typically spends an inordinate amount of time sifting through thousands of artifacts to find just the subset of information needed to complete an assigned task. All too often, before completing the task the programmer must switch to working on a different task. These task switches waste time as the programmer must repeatedly find and identify the information relevant to the task-at-hand. In this paper, we present a mechanism that captures, models, and persists the elements and relations relevant to a task. We show how our task context model reduces information overload and focuses a programmer’s work by filtering and ranking the information presented by the development environment. A task context is created by monitoring a programmer’s activity and extracting the structural relationships of program artifacts. Operations on task contexts integrate with development environment features, such as structure display, search, and chan...
Mik Kersten, Gail C. Murphy
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Type Conference
Year 2006
Where SIGSOFT
Authors Mik Kersten, Gail C. Murphy
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