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Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human factors in computing systems
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International Journal of Human-Computer Studies - Best of empirical studies of programmers 7
Towards a theory of the cognitive processes in computer programming
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies - Special issue: 1969-1999, the 30th anniversary
Using information scent to model user information needs and actions and the Web
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Modern Information Retrieval
The bloodhound project: automating discovery of web usability issues using the InfoScentπ simulator
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Lost and Found in Software Space
HICSS '01 Proceedings of the 34th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences ( HICSS-34)-Volume 9 - Volume 9
ScentTrails: Integrating browsing and searching on the Web
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Mining the Maintenance History of a Legacy Software System
ICSM '03 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance
Mining Version Histories to Guide Software Changes
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Predicting Source Code Changes by Mining Change History
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
How Effective Developers Investigate Source Code: An Exploratory Study
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Mylar: a degree-of-interest model for IDEs
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Towards understanding programs through wear-based filtering
SoftVis '05 Proceedings of the 2005 ACM symposium on Software visualization
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Hipikat: A Project Memory for Software Development
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
NavTracks: Supporting Navigation in Software Maintenance
ICSM '05 Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance
Easing Program Comprehension by Sharing Navigation Data
VLHCC '05 Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing
A Linguistic Analysis of How People Describe Software Problems
VLHCC '06 Proceedings of the Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Scents in Programs: Does Information Foraging Theory Apply to Program Maintenance?
VLHCC '07 Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing
A framework and methodology for studying the causes of software errors in programming systems
Journal of Visual Languages and Computing
SNIF-ACT: a model of information foraging on the world wide web
UM'03 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on User modeling
End-user software engineering and distributed cognition
SEEUP '09 Proceedings of the 2009 ICSE Workshop on Software Engineering Foundations for End User Programming
Web User Modeling via Negotiating Information Foraging Agent
INTERACT '09 Proceedings of the 12th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Part I
Reactive information foraging for evolving goals
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Developers ask reachability questions
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Non-programmers identifying functionality in unfamiliar code: strategies and barriers
Journal of Visual Languages and Computing
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Extending predictive models of exploratory behavior to broader populations
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Proceedings of the 24th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
End-user debugging strategies: A sensemaking perspective
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Blaze: supporting two-phased call graph navigation in source code
CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering
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ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
An Information Foraging Theory Perspective on Tools for Debugging, Refactoring, and Reuse Tasks
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
The whats and hows of programmers' foraging diets
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
How tools in IDEs shape developers' navigation behavior
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering
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In recent years, the software engineering community has begun to study program navigation and tools to support it. Some of these navigation tools are very useful, but they lack a theoretical basis that could reduce the need for ad hoc tool building approaches by explaining what is fundamentally necessary in such tools. In this paper, we present PFIS (Programmer Flow by Information Scent), a model and algorithm of programmer navigation during software maintenance. We also describe an experimental study of expert programmers debugging real bugs described in real bug reports for a real Java application. We found that PFIS' performance was close to aggregated human decisions as to where to navigate, and was significantly better than individual programmers' decisions.