Gandalf: software development environments
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
CHI '92 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
IEEE Internet Computing
Hipikat: recommending pertinent software development artifacts
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Software Engineering
Classification of and Experimentation on Tool Interfacing in Software Development Environments
APSEC '96 Proceedings of the Third Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference
Jazz: a collaborative application development environment
OOPSLA '03 Companion of the 18th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Software engineering
Hipikat: A Project Memory for Software Development
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Maintaining mental models: a study of developer work habits
Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Software engineering
Mica: A Web-Search Tool for Finding API Components and Examples
VLHCC '06 Proceedings of the Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing
Using task context to improve programmer productivity
Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Towards Semantic tuplespace computing: the Semantic web spaces system
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Information Needs in Collocated Software Development Teams
ICSE '07 Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Software Engineering
Assieme: finding and leveraging implicit references in a web search interface for programmers
Proceedings of the 20th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Codetrail: Connecting source code and web resources
VLHCC '08 Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing
HyperSource: bridging the gap between source and code-related web sites
UIST '10 Adjunct proceedings of the 23nd annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
HyperSource: bridging the gap between source and code-related web sites
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Reverb: recommending code-related web pages
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering
Authoring multi-stage code examples with editable code histories
Proceedings of the 26th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
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When faced with the need for documentation, examples, bug fixes, error descriptions, code snippets, workarounds, templates, patterns, or advice, software developers frequently turn to their web browser. Web resources both organized and authoritative as well as informal and community-driven are heavily used by developers. The time and attention devoted to finding (or re-finding) and navigating these sites is significant. We present Codetrail, a system that demonstrates how the developer's use of web resources can be improved by connecting the Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE) and the Firefox web browser. Codetrail uses a communication channel and shared data model between these applications to implement a variety of integrative tools. By combining information previously available only to the IDE or the web browser alone (such as editing history, code contents, and recent browsing), Codetrail can automate previously manual tasks and enable new interactions that exploit the marriage of data and functionality from Firefox and Eclipse. Just as the IDE will change the contents of peripheral views to focus on the particular code or task with which the developer is engaged, so, too, the web browser can be focused on the developer's current context and task.