• DocumentCode
    1788277
  • Title

    Improving error notification comprehension through visual overlays in IDEs

  • Author

    Barik, Titus

  • Author_Institution
    North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, USA
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    July 28 2014-Aug. 1 2014
  • Firstpage
    177
  • Lastpage
    178
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC), 2014 IEEE Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Melbourne, VIC
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/VLHCC.2014.6883043
  • Filename
    6883043