While Eclipse has greatly simplified the task of creating integrated development environments, creating a full-featured IDE can still take years. Fortunately, for a large categor...
Even when working on a well-modularized software system, programmers tend to spend more time navigating the code than working with it. This phenomenon arises because it is impossi...
Abstract—Change prediction helps developers by recommending program entities that will have to be changed alongside the entities currently being changed. To evaluate their accura...
Frameworks provide means to reuse existing design and functionality, but first require developers to understand how to use them. Learning the correct usage of a framework can be ...
Mainstream IDEs such as Eclipse support developers in managing software projects mainly by offering static views of the source code. Such a static perspective neglects any informa...