SMALLTALK-80: the interactive programming environment
SMALLTALK-80: the interactive programming environment
Back to the future: the story of Squeak, a practical Smalltalk written in itself
Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Software Engineering
Mylar: a degree-of-interest model for IDEs
Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Aspect-oriented software development
The story of moose: an agile reengineering environment
Proceedings of the 10th European software engineering conference held jointly with 13th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
NavTracks: Supporting Navigation in Software Maintenance
ICSM '05 Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance
Executable Grammars in Newspeak
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
Exploiting Runtime Information in the IDE
ICPC '08 Proceedings of the 2008 The 16th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension
Co-evolving code and design with intensional views
Computer Languages, Systems and Structures
ISC'06 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Advances in smalltalk
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The IDE used in most Smalltalk dialects, including Pharo, Squeak and Cincom Smalltalk, did not evolve significantly over the last years, if not to say decades. For other languages, for instance Java, the available IDEs made tremendous progress as Eclipse and Net-Beans illustrate. While the Smalltalk IDE served as an exemplar for many years, other IDEs caught up or even overtook the erstwhile leader in terms of feature-richness, usability and code navigation facilities. In this paper we first analyze the difficulty of software navigation in the Smalltalk IDE and second illustrate with concrete examples the features we added to the Smalltalk IDE to fill the gap to modern IDEs and to provide novel, improved means to navigate source space. We show that thanks to the agility and dynamics of Smalltalk, we are able to extend and enhance with reasonable effort the Smalltalk IDE to better support software navigation, program comprehension, and software maintenance in general. One such support is the integration of dynamic information into the static source views we are familiar with. Other means include easing the access to static information (for instance by better arranging important packages) or helping developers locating artifacts of interest.