Temporal code completion and navigation

Authors:
Yun Young Lee;Sam Harwell;Sarfraz Khurshid;Darko Marinov
Affiliations:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA;University of Texas at Austin, USA;University of Texas at Austin, USA;University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering
Year:
2013

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Abstract

Modern IDEs make many software engineering tasks easier by automating functionality such as code completion and navigation. However, this functionality operates on one version of the code at a time. We envision a new approach that makes code completion and navigation aware of code evolution and enables them to operate on multiple versions at a time, without having to manually switch across these versions. We illustrate our approach on several example scenarios. We also describe a prototype Eclipse plugin that embodies our approach for code completion and navigation for Java code. We believe our approach opens a new line of research that adds a novel, temporal dimension for treating code in IDEs in the context of tasks that previously required manual switching across different code versions.