User learning and performance with marking menus
CHI '94 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Refactoring: improving the design of existing code
Refactoring: improving the design of existing code
SATIN: a toolkit for informal ink-based applications
UIST '00 Proceedings of the 13th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Improving usability of refactoring tools
Companion to the 21st ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications
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Refactoring tools promise to increase the speed at which programmers write code, but programmers report that contemporary tools sometimes slow them down. Some of that slowdown can be attributed to the time it takes to activate refactoring tools, typically with a combination of code selection, hotkeys, linear menus, and wizard interfaces. In this paper, I present pie menus and refactoring cues, two new mechanisms for activating refactoring tools. These mechanisms were designed to accommodate how program-mers want to refactor and to make good on the promise of refactoring tools to help programmers write code faster.