eMoose: a memory aid for software developers

Authors:
Uri Dekel
Affiliations:
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Venue:
Companion to the 23rd ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming systems languages and applications
Year:
2008

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Abstract

Developers rely on knowledge of project artifacts to avoid usage errors and on knowledge of their activities to maintain orientation and trace decisions. Unfortunately, human memory is unreliable, and existing documentation practices are costly and limited in their ability to draw attention to preserved knowledge. We propose a unified memory aid aimed at addressing these problems using episodic and contextual presentations of lightweight subjective knowledge elements supplied by the developers and objective events elicited from IDE monitors. In particular, directives on call targets are pushed into the attention of client code authors.