Code bubbles: rethinking the user interface paradigm of integrated development environments

Authors:
Andrew Bragdon;Steven P. Reiss;Robert Zeleznik;Suman Karumuri;William Cheung;Joshua Kaplan;Christopher Coleman;Ferdi Adeputra;Joseph J. LaViola, Jr.
Affiliations:
Brown University;Brown University;Brown University;Brown University;Brown University;Brown University;Brown University;Brown University;University of Central Florida
Venue:
Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 1
Year:
2010

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Abstract

Today's integrated development environments (IDEs) are hampered by their dependence on files and file-based editing. We propose a novel user interface that is based on collections of lightweight editable fragments, called bubbles, which when grouped together form concurrently visible working sets. In this paper we describe the design of a prototype IDE user interface for Java based on working sets. A quantitative evaluation shows that developers could expect to view a sizeable number of functions concurrently with relatively few UI operations. A qualitative user evaluation with 23 professional developers indicates a high level of excitement, interest, and potential benefits and uses.