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CHI
1993
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Reducing the variability of programmers' performance through explained examples
A software tool called EXPLAINER has been developed for helping programmers perform new tasks by exploring previously worked-out examples. EXPLAINER is based on cognitive principl...
David F. Redmiles
IUI
1998
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
CyberDesk: A Framework for Providing Self-integrating Context-aware Services
Applications are often designed to take advantage of the potential for integration with each other via shared information. Current approaches for integration are limited, affectin...
Anind K. Dey, Gregory D. Abowd, Andrew Wood
PLDI
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Programming by sketching for bit-streaming programs
This paper introduces the concept of programming with sketches, an approach for the rapid development of high-performance applications. This approach allows a programmer to write ...
Armando Solar-Lezama, Rodric M. Rabbah, Rastislav ...
ISESE
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Managing software change tasks: an exploratory study
Programmers often have to perform change tasks that involve unfamiliar portions of a software system’s code base. To help inform the design of software development tools intende...
Jonathan Sillito, Kris De Volder, Brian Fisher, Ga...
VL
2006
IEEE
100views Visual Languages» more  VL 2006»
13 years 11 months ago
Mica: A Web-Search Tool for Finding API Components and Examples
Because software libraries are numerous and large, learning how to use them is a common and problematic task for experienced programmers and novices alike. Internet search engines...
Jeffrey Stylos, Brad A. Myers
OOPSLA
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Optimizing programs with intended semantics
Modern object-oriented languages have complex features that cause programmers to overspecify their programs. This overspecification hinders automatic optimizers, since they must ...
Daniel von Dincklage, Amer Diwan
IWPC
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Resumption strategies for interrupted programming tasks
Interruptions are a daily reality for professional programmers. Unfortunately, the strategies programmers use to recover lost knowledge and resume work have not yet been well stud...
Chris Parnin, Spencer Rugaber
ICSM
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Searching and skimming: An exploratory study
Source code search is an important activity for programmers working on a change task to a software system. As part of a larger project to improve tool support for finding informa...
Jamie Starke, Chris Luce, Jonathan Sillito
VL
2009
IEEE
128views Visual Languages» more  VL 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
Improving API documentation using API usage information
Jadeite is a new Javadoc-like API documentation system that takes advantage of multiple users’ aggregate experience to reduce difficulties that programmers have learning new API...
Jeffrey Stylos, Andrew Faulring, Zizhuang Yang, Br...