Provenance support for rework

  • Authors:
  • Xiang Zhao;Barbara Staudt Lerner;Leon J. Osterweil;Emery R. Boose;Aaron M. Ellison

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Massachusetts Amherst;Mount Holyoke College;University of Massachusetts Amherst;Harvard University;Harvard University

  • Venue:
  • TaPP'12 Proceedings of the 4th USENIX conference on Theory and Practice of Provenance
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Rework occurs commonly in software development. This paper describes a simple rework example, namely the code refactoring process. We show that contextual information is central to supporting such rework, and we present an artifact provenance support approach that can help developers keep track of previous decisions to improve their effectiveness in rework.