Active code completion

Omar, Cyrus; Yoon, Young Seok; LaToza,; Myers,

doi:10.1109/icse.2012.6227133

Cited by 94 publications

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“…Robbes and Lanza [25] showed that history-aware code completion yielded both quantitative and qualitative improvements, while Omar et al [22] and Nguyen et al [20] showed that contextual and structural improvements to code completion were well-perceived and useful to developers. Hou and Pletcher evaluated several sorting, filtering, and grouping strategies for code completion [15].…”

Section: Ides and Code Completionmentioning

confidence: 97%

An empirical comparison of static and dynamic type systems on API usage in the presence of an IDE: Java vs. groovy with eclipse

Petersen

Hanenberg

Robbes

2014

Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Program Comprehension

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Several studies have concluded that static type systems offer an advantage over dynamic type systems for programming tasks involving the discovery of a new API. However, these studies did not take into account modern IDE features; the advanced navigation and code completion techniques available in modern IDEs could drastically alter their conclusions. This study describes an experiment that compares the usage of an unknown API using Java and Groovy using the IDE Eclipse. It turns out that the previous finding that static type systems improve the usability of an unknown API still holds, even in the presence of a modern IDE.

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Section: Ides and Code Completionmentioning

confidence: 97%

An empirical comparison of static and dynamic type systems on API usage in the presence of an IDE: Java vs. groovy with eclipse

Petersen

Hanenberg

Robbes

2014

Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Program Comprehension

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“…These tools do not perform complex edit operations such as statement, if-condition, and while loop insertions or deletions. Graphite [8] …”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Several code completion approaches [1,5,9] rank certain method targets higher than others based on the patterns found in the codebase or version histories. Omar et al [8] suggest possible values to use based on a predefined value set. However, these tools cannot perform complex edit operations customized to individual targets.…”

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confidence: 99%

Cookbook: in situ code completion using edit recipes learned from examples

Jacobellis

Meng

Kim

2014

Companion Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering

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Existing code completion engines leverage only pre-defined templates or match a set of user-defined APIs to complete the rest of changes. We propose a new code completion technique, called Cookbook, where developers can define custom edit recipes-a reusable template of complex edit operations-by specifying change examples. It generates an abstract edit recipe that describes the most specific generalization of the demonstrated example program transformations. Given a library of edit recipes, it matches a developer's edit stream to recommend a suitable recipe that is capable of filling out the rest of change customized to the target. We evaluate Cookbook using 68 systematic changed methods drawn from the version history of Eclipse SWT. Cookbook is able to narrow down to the most suitable recipe in 75% of the cases. It takes 120 milliseconds to find the correct suitable recipe on average, and the edits produced by the selected recipe are on average 82% similar to developers' hand edit. This shows Cookbook's potential to speed up manual editing and to minimize developers' errors. Our demo video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4BNc8FT4RU.

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“…Little et al [25] used keywords as as inputs to provide code-completion for Java programs. Omar et al [34] used graphical methods to provide code-completion for parameters of object initialization methods. Sahavechaphan et al [37] developed a framework that can be used by the developers to query a sample repository for code snippets.…”

Section: Code Completionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Prior studies have revealed that developers make heavy use of code completion features provided within their IDE [31], and that they require code completion support for XML-based languages [34] such as XHTML and XPath. Although code completion for traditional languages such as Java has been an active research topic [36,24,16,8,7,30,17], code completion for web applications and JavaScript in particular, has received very limited attention from the research community.…”

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Dompletion

Bajaj

Pattabiraman

Mesbah

2014

Proceedings of the 29th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering

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JavaScript is a scripting language that plays a prominent role in modern web applications. It is dynamic in nature and interacts heavily with the Document Object Model (DOM) at runtime. These characteristics make providing code completion support to JavaScript programmers particularly challenging. We propose an automated technique that reasons about existing DOM structures, dynamically analyzes the JavaScript code, and provides code completion suggestions for JavaScript code that interacts with the DOM through its APIs. Our automated code completion scheme is implemented in an open source tool called DOMPLETION. The results of our empirical evaluation indicate that (1) DOM structures exhibit patterns, which can be extracted and reasoned about in the context of code completion suggestions; (2) DOMPLETION can provide code completion suggestions with a recall of 89%, precision of 90%, and an average time of 2.8 seconds.

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Active code completion

Cited by 94 publications

References 14 publications

An empirical comparison of static and dynamic type systems on API usage in the presence of an IDE: Java vs. groovy with eclipse

An empirical comparison of static and dynamic type systems on API usage in the presence of an IDE: Java vs. groovy with eclipse

Cookbook: in situ code completion using edit recipes learned from examples

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