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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Evaluating a query framework for software evolution data
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Michael Würsch
  • Emanuel Giger
  • Harald C Gall
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
Publisher Association for Computing Machinery
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 1049-331X
Volume 22
Number 4
Page Range 38
Date 2013
Abstract Text With the steady advances in tooling to support software engineering, mastering all the features of modern IDEs, version control systems, and project trackers is becoming increasingly difficult. Answering even the most common developer questions can be surprisingly tedious and difficult. In this paper we present a user study with 35 subjects to evaluate our quasi-natural language interface that provides access to various facets of the evolution of a software system but requires almost zero learning effort. Our approach is tightly woven into the Eclipse IDE and allows developers to answer questions related to source code, development history, or bug and issue management. The results of our evaluation show that our query interface can outperform classical software engineering tools in terms of correctness, while yielding significant time savings to its users and greatly advancing the state of the art in terms of usability and learnability.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1145/2522920.2522931
Other Identification Number merlin-id:7652
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Additional Information © Würsch, Giger, Gall | ACM 2013. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive Version of Record was published in ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology , http://dx.doi.org/110.1145/2522920.2522931.