Empirical evaluation of the tarantula automatic fault-localization technique
Proceedings of the 20th IEEE/ACM international Conference on Automated software engineering
The JOpera visual composition language
Journal of Visual Languages and Computing
The state of the art in end-user software engineering
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Supporting plug-in mashes to ease tool integration
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Developing Tools as Plug-ins
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Most of the modern Integrated Development Environments are developed with plug-in based architectures that can be extended with additional functionalities and plug-ins, according to user needs. However, extending an IDE is still a possibility restricted to developers with deep knowledge about the specific development environment and its architecture. In this paper we present MASH, a tool that eases the programming of Integrated Development Environments. The tool supports the definition of workflows that can be quickly designed to integrate functionalities offered by multiple plug-ins, without the need of knowing anything about the internal architecture of the IDE. Workflows can be easily reshaped every time an analysis must be modified, without the need of producing Java code and deploying components in the IDE. Early results suggest that this approach can effectively facilitate programming of IDEs.