Tackling Software Navigation Issues of the Smalltalk IDE
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The document discusses navigation challenges in the Smalltalk IDE, highlighting the need for frequent switching between windows and revisiting entities during defect correction tasks. It presents statistics from a study involving 20 developers, indicating high navigation actions compared to edits. Suggestions for improving navigation include better management of working sets, runtime information, and visualization of dependencies.
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Tackling Software Navigation Issues of the Smalltalk IDE
- 1. Tackling Software Navigation Issues of the Smalltalk IDE David R öthlisberger , Oscar Nierstrasz, Alexandre Bergel and Stéphane Ducasse University of Bern, Switzerland Universidad de Chile, Chile INRIA-Lille Nord Europe, France
- 2. Navigation of Source Space to gain understanding, to locate the cause of a defect, to implement new features, or to refactor
- 5. Problem Indicators - Much navigation required to locate broken artifacts. - Many windows opened, many switches between windows - Many source entities visited over and over again Task: Defect correction by 20 different developers during 30 minutes Number of window switches: 38.85 Number of entities revisited: 35.10 (45%) Edit / Navigation ratio 2.85% Number of navigation actions until first edit 52.14 Number of navigation actions between two edits 19.31
- 6. How to improve software navigation? What is missing in the IDE?
- 7. Working Sets Runtime Information Distributed Code Window Plague Hidden Dependencies
- 8. Smart Groups
- 10. Multiple Methods
- 11. Package View
- 12. Hierarchy View
- 13. Dependency View
- 14. Icons
- 17. Autumn Leaves
- 18. Summary Questions? Runtime Information Distributed Code Window Plague Working Sets Hidden Dependencies