Reviewing the quality of awareness support in collaborative applications

Antunes, Pedro; Herskovic, Valeria; Ochoa, Sergio F.; Pino, José A.

doi:10.1016/j.jss.2013.11.1078

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“…Context awareness [31] was mentioned as an important feature of the ideal debugging tool by many participants. Context can refer to relevant links to external resources (P 11 : "Links to relevant Stack Overflow posts and additional information") as well as to the user's code base (P 12 : "Integration of the user's code into the plugin would be great").…”

Section: Discussion and Open Research Challengesmentioning

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Enhancing Python Compiler Error Messages via Stack

Thiselton

2019

2019 ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM)

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Background: Compilers tend to produce cryptic and uninformative error messages, leaving programmers confused and requiring them to spend precious time to resolve the underlying error. To find help, programmers often take to online question-and-answer forums such as Stack Overflow to start discussion threads about the errors they encountered.Aims: We conjecture that information from Stack Overflow threads which discuss compiler errors can be automatically collected and repackaged to provide programmers with enhanced compiler error messages, thus saving programmers' time and energy.Method: We present Pycee, a plugin integrated with the popular Sublime Text IDE to provide enhanced compiler error messages for the Python programming language. Pycee automatically queries Stack Overflow to provide customised and summarised information within the IDE. We evaluated two Pycee variants through a think-aloud user study during which 16 programmers completed Python programming tasks while using Pycee.Results: The majority of participants agreed that Pycee was helpful while completing the study tasks. When compared to a baseline relying on the official Python documentation to enhance compiler error messages, participants generally preferred Pycee in terms of helpfulness, citing concrete suggestions for fixes and example code as major benefits.Conclusions: Our results confirm that data from online sources such as Stack Overflow can be successfully used to automatically enhance compiler error messages. Our work opens up venues for future work to further enhance compiler error messages as well as to automatically reuse content from Stack Overflow for other aspects of programming.

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Section: Discussion and Open Research Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Enhancing Python Compiler Error Messages via Stack

Thiselton

2019

2019 ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM)

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“…We first illustrate the relationship between team awareness and developer productivity, using an existing categorization of awareness types as a guideline [2].…”

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How Team Awareness Influences Perceptions of Developer Productivity

Filho

2019

Rethinking Productivity in Software Engineering

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“…Different methods to increase awareness are well studied for software development and text editors. Usually they include real-time highlighting of changes, visualizations of the working areas of other collaborators, different colors for different users, and different means for communication (e.g., chat facilities) [1]. Drawing from work in this area, Ethermap uses such user-awareness methods and adapts them to the specific needs and properties of a map editor.…”

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“…The design was informed by existing research in the area of multi-user collaboration environments [1,16], single screen geocollaboration environments [20], and by geo-conference tools [4]. Current research in real-time collaboration is mainly focused on textual data.…”

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2015

Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Real-time synchronization is increasingly available in webbased environments for editing textual data, and this has changed how groups of people collaborate. We present a novel approach for real-time collaborative editing of geo-data. We introduce Ethermap, an open source webapplication that implements this approach and enables multiple users to map data concurrently. It supports synchronous and collaborative mapping in several ways: it visually highlights mapping activities, it allows for fine-grained reviewing of all changes, and it enhances text-based communication with cross-modal references to geo-objects.We report on key results from a multi-tiered evaluation of Ethermap based on a user-study and on expert interviews. The concept of real-time collaborative editing was received favorably by users and experts. Participants of the study learned to use Ethermap quickly, and successfully completed a collaborative mapping task. Experts and users agreed that, given the right scenario (e.g., disaster mapping, teaching, planning), the approach could benefit the process of working on geo-data collaboratively.

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Reviewing the quality of awareness support in collaborative applications

Cited by 49 publications

References 35 publications

Enhancing Python Compiler Error Messages via Stack

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How Team Awareness Influences Perceptions of Developer Productivity

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