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Ducky's Homework / Research

I am working for Gail Murphy, looking at programmer productivity. :
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    • Gel (Windows only, dormant)
    • Visual Studio
    • BlueJ -- teaching tool; not sure if it scales
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  • Rob's thesis mentions that 58-81% of web navigation is to previously seen pages, but passes on saying what % is for source. That would be interesting to try to pull out of Mylar data. (Did I finish his thesis?)
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  • Find out what plug-ins the various IDEs have -- code coverage? findbugs? JUnit?
  • Rob's thesis mentions that 58-81% of web navigation is to previously seen pages [Dumais et al], but passes on saying what % is for source. That would be interesting to try to pull out of Mylar data.
 
  • Bannon et al: "[D]igressions are frequent. When a record is made of these commands as they occur temporarily, as in the history list, information on the tasks and goals of the users is lost."
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    • H3.3: marking "special" places in the history drop-down with icons
      • classes/methods reached via a search
      • classes/methods reached via the package explorer
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      • classes/methods reached via
 
      • (Question: what about reached from Outline View? Class Hierarchy view? QuickOutline)
      • (Question: do I want to insert a right arrow if they did declaration and left if they did references? What about a refs/declr search?)
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    • H3.4: telling people that BFN is a better approach
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    • H3.4: making search results visually distinctive if they have gone there recently
    • H3.5: telling people that BFN is a better approach
    • (H3.6: telling people to write down three hypotheses)
 
 
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