Title :
Improving error notification comprehension through visual overlays in IDEs
Author_Institution :
North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, USA
fDate :
July 28 2014-Aug. 1 2014
Abstract :
Error notifications, as presented by modern integrated development environments, are cryptic and confusing to developers. My dissertation research will demonstrate that modifying production compilers to expose detailed semantics about compilation errors is feasible, and that these semantics can be leveraged through diagrammatic representations using visual overlays on the source code to significantly improve compiler error notification comprehension.
Keywords :
program compilers; programming environments; programming language semantics; source code (software); IDE; compilation errors; compiler error notification comprehension; diagrammatic representations; modern integrated development environments; production compilers; semantics; source code; visual overlays; Cognitive science; Cryptography; Ontologies; Production; Program processors; Semantics; Visualization;
Conference_Titel :
Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC), 2014 IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Melbourne, VIC
DOI :
10.1109/VLHCC.2014.6883043
