Code bubbles: a working set-based interface for code understanding and maintenance

An Exploratory Study of How Developers Seek, Relate, and Collect Relevant Information during Software Maintenance Tasks

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Rooms: the use of multiple virtual workspaces to reduce space contention in a window-based graphical user interface

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Using task context to improve programmer productivity

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How are Java software developers using the Eclipse IDE?

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Leveraging legacy system dollars for e-business

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Hipikat: recommending pertinent software development artifacts

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Mylar

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How effective developers investigate source code: an exploratory study

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The Sandbox for analysis

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WinCuts

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Zooming versus multiple window interfaces

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Easing Program Comprehension by Sharing Navigation Data

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A comparison of tiled and overlapping windows

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A comparison of tiled and overlapping windows

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Scalable Fabric: flexible task management

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ConcernMapper

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The Desert environment

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JASPER

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GestureBar

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Feat: A tool for locating, describing, and analyzing concerns in source code

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Code Thumbnails: Using Spatial Memory to Navigate Source Code

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Bubble clusters

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NavTracks: Supporting Navigation in Software

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Path exploration during code navigation

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Code bubbles

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"Not my bug!" and other reasons for software bug report reassignments

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Tracing software developers' eyes and interactions for change tasks

Kevic, K., Walters, B. M., Shaffer, T., Sharif, B., Shepherd, D. C., & Fritz, T. (2015) · ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE) · doi:10.1145/2786805.2786864 · Cited by 107 · see citing works

Code space

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Program Comprehension: Past, Present, and Future

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StructJumper

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Interviews and Observation of Blind Software Developers at Work to Understand Code Navigation Challenges

Albusays, K., Ludi, S., & Huenerfauth, M. (2017) · Proceedings of the 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility · doi:10.1145/3132525.3132550 · Cited by 83 · see citing works

Hands-on math

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Fork It: Supporting Stateful Alternatives in Computational Notebooks

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DataPlay

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Reactive information foraging: an empirical investigation of theory-based recommender systems for programmers

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Stacksplorer: call graph navigation helps increasing code maintenance efficiency

Karrer, T., Krämer, J.-P., Diehl, J., Hartmann, B., & Borchers, J. (2011) · Proceedings of the 24th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology · doi:10.1145/2047196.2047225 · Cited by 48 · see citing works

Developers' code context models for change tasks

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PanoramicData: Data Analysis through Pen & Touch

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The Moldable Debugger: A Framework for Developing Domain-Specific Debuggers

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The future of software engineering

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The patchworks code editor: toward faster navigation with less code arranging and fewer navigation mistakes

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Debugger Canvas: Industrial experience with the code bubbles paradigm

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Eye gaze and interaction contexts for change tasks – Observations and potential

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Practical domain-specific debuggers using the Moldable Debugger framework

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The moldable inspector

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CodePad

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Seeking the user interface

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When the Tab Comes Due:Challenges in the Cost Structure of Browser Tab Usage

Chang, J. C., Hahn, N., Kim, Y., Coupland, J., Breneisen, B., Kim, H. S., Hwong, J., & Kittur, A. (2021) · CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · doi:10.1145/3411764.3445585 · Cited by 32 · see citing works

Seeking the user interface

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StickyLand: Breaking the Linear Presentation of Computational Notebooks

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Interactive Extraction of Examples from Existing Code

Head, A., Glassman, E. L., Hartmann, B., & Hearst, M. A. (2018) · CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · doi:10.1145/3173574.3173659 · Cited by 25 · see citing works

Using Annotations for Sensemaking About Code

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Taming the IDE with fine-grained interaction data

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A Clustering-Based Approach to Enriching Code Foraging Environment

Niu, N., Jin, X., Niu, Z., Cheng, J.-R. C., Li, L., & Kataev, M. Y. (2015) · IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics · doi:10.1109/tcyb.2015.2419811 · Cited by 21 · see citing works

The Effect of Richer Visualizations on Code Comprehension

Asenov, D., Hilliges, O., & Müller, P. (2016) · CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · doi:10.1145/2858036.2858372 · Cited by 20 · see citing works

Unifying Textual and Visual

Conversy, S. (2014) · ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software (Onward!) · doi:10.1145/2661136.2661138 · Cited by 20 · see citing works

Supporting Code Comprehension via Annotations: Right Information at the Right Time and Place

Adeli, M., NELSON, N. M., Chattopadhyay, S., Coffey, H., Henley, A. Z., & Sarma, A. (2020) · IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) · doi:10.1109/vl/hcc50065.2020.9127264 · Cited by 20 · see citing works

What constitutes debugging? An exploratory study of debugging episodes

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Envision: A fast and flexible visual code editor with fluid interactions (Overview)

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CodeGazer

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Digitally annexing desk space for software development (NIER track)

Hardy, J., Bull, C., Kotonya, G., & Whittle, J. (2011) · ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings (ICSE-Companion) · doi:10.1145/1985793.1985910 · Cited by 17 · see citing works

Big Code Search: A Bibliography

Kim, K., Ghatpande, S., Kim, D., Zhou, X., Liu, K., Bissyandé, T. F., Klein, J., & Traon, Y. L. (2023) · ACM Computing Surveys · doi:10.1145/3604905 · Cited by 17 · see citing works

How tools in IDEs shape developers' navigation behavior

Krämer, J.-P., Karrer, T., Kurz, J., Wittenhagen, M., & Borchers, J. (2013) · CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · doi:10.1145/2470654.2466419 · Cited by 15 · see citing works

RefactorPad

Raab, F., Wolff, C. G., & Echtler, F. (2013) · ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems (EICS) · doi:10.1145/2494603.2480317 · Cited by 15 · see citing works

Detecting Developers' Task Switches and Types

Meyer, A. N., Satterfield, C., Zuger, M., Kevic, K., Murphy, G. C., Zimmermann, T., & Fritz, T. (2022) · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · doi:10.1109/tse.2020.2984086 · Cited by 14 · see citing works

TRACTUS: Understanding and Supporting Source Code Experimentation in Hypothesis-Driven Data Science

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The Role of Working Memory in Program Tracing

Crichton, W., Agrawala, M., & Hanrahan, P. (2021) · Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · doi:10.1145/3411764.3445257 · Cited by 13 · see citing works

Meta-Manager: A Tool for Collecting and Exploring Meta Information about Code

Horvath, A., Macvean, A., & Myers, B. A. (2024) · CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · doi:10.1145/3613904.3642676 · Cited by 14 · see citing works

Supporting Data Workers To Perform Exploratory Programming

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Real-time video surveillance for large scenes

Liu, H., Tang, C., Wu, S., & Wang, H. (2011) · International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP) · doi:10.1109/wcsp.2011.6096963 · Cited by 12 · see citing works

Flower: Navigating program flow in the IDE

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Plugging in and into code bubbles

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Toward Principles for the Design of Navigation Affordances in Code Editors

Henley, A. Z., Fleming, S. D., & Luong, M. V. (2017) · CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · doi:10.1145/3025453.3025645 · Cited by 11 · see citing works

Can guided decomposition help end-users write larger block-based programs? a mobile robot experiment

Ritschel, N., Fronchetti, F., Holmes, R., Garcia, R., & Shepherd, D. C. (2022) · Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages · doi:10.1145/3563296 · Cited by 10 · see citing works

Blaze

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Active Documentation: Helping Developers Follow Design Decisions

Mehrpour, S., LaToza, T. D., & Kindi, R. K. (2019) · IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) · doi:10.1109/vlhcc.2019.8818816 · Cited by 10 · see citing works

CodeGraffiti: Using hand-drawn sketches connected to code bases in navigation tasks

Lichtschlag, L., Spychalski, L., & Bochers, J. (2014) · IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) · doi:10.1109/vlhcc.2014.6883024 · Cited by 10 · see citing works

Visual design for a tree-oriented projectional editor

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UML-based Live Programming Environment in Virtual Reality

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A Framework for Examining Topical Locality in Object-Oriented Software

Niu, N., Savolainen, J. E., Bhowmik, T., Mahmoud, A., & Reddivari, S. (2012) · IEEE Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC) · doi:10.1109/compsac.2012.32 · Cited by 9 · see citing works

A design perspective on modularity

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Plugging in and into Code Bubbles

Reiss, S. P. (2012) · International Workshop on Developing Tools as Plug-Ins (TOPI) · doi:10.1109/topi.2012.6229811 · Cited by 8 · see citing works

Support for Long-Form Documentation Authoring and Maintenance

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Stamper: An Artboard-Oriented Creative Coding Environment

Burgess, C., Lockton, D., Albert, M., & Llach, D. C. (2020) · CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA) · doi:10.1145/3334480.3382994 · Cited by 8 · see citing works

IDEvelopAR: A Programming Interface to enhance Code Understanding in Augmented Reality

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The VIVIDE programming environment

Taeumel, M., Steinert, B., & Hirschfeld, R. (2012) · ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software (Onward!) · doi:10.1145/2384592.2384604 · Cited by 8 · see citing works

Context-Based Model for Concern Markup of a Source Code

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How do Students Experience and Judge Software Comprehension Techniques?

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Exploring Code Projections as a Tool for Concern Management

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Code Bubbles: A practical working-set programming environment

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An Interactive System for Data Structure Development

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Personalised continuous software engineering

Papatheocharous, E., Belk, M., Nyfjord, J., Germanakos, P., & Samaras, G. (2014) · doi:10.1145/2593812.2593815 · Cited by 7 · see citing works

On the use of visual clustering to identify landmarks in code navigation

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Embedding programming context into source code

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CEL: modeling everywhere

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Plugging in and into code bubbles: the code bubbles architecture

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Visually programming dataflows for distributed data analytics

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Commit Bubbles

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Towards improving industrial adoption

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Designing for extensibility and planning for conflict: experiments in web-browser design

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Towards Activity-Aware Tool Support for Change Tasks

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Understanding Similar Code through Comparative Comprehension

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Sources of software development task friction

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Too Simple? Notions of Task Complexity used in Maintenance-based Studies of Programming Tools

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Code bubbles: a practical working-set programming environment

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Pervasive software visualizations (keynote)

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A Study on Guiding Programmers’ Code Navigation with a Graphical Code Recommender

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Inclusive Multimodal Voice Interaction for Code Navigation

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How Does This New Developer Test Fit In? A Visualization to Understand Amplified Test Cases

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Cloud-Tiered Pipelines for Built-Environment Data: A Visual Programming Stack on Scalable Three-Layer Services

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CoMoGen: An Approach to Locate Relevant Task Context by Combining Search and Navigation

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Commit bubbles

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CodeRibbon: More Efficient Workspace Management and Navigation for Mainstream Development Environments

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CEL: Touching software modeling in essence

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Robust binding to syntactic elements in a changing code

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Building Software by Rolling the Dice: A Qualitative Study of Vibe Coding

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Making Programming More Easily in Code Bubbles

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A research demonstration of code bubbles

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