Title :
NavTracks: supporting navigation in software maintenance
Author :
Singer, Janice ; Elves, Robert ; Storey, Margaret-Anne
Author_Institution :
Inst. for Inf. Technol., Nat. Res. Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ont., Canada
Abstract :
In this paper, we present NavTracks, a tool that supports browsing through software. NavTracks keeps track of the navigation history of software developers, forming associations between related files. These associations are then used as the basis for recommending potentially related files as a developer navigates the software system. We present the reasoning behind NavTracks, its basic algorithm, a case study, and propose some future work.
Keywords :
software maintenance; software tools; NavTracks; software browsing; software developer navigation history; software maintenance; software system; Cognitive science; Computer science; History; Human computer interaction; Navigation; Software engineering; Software maintenance; Software systems; Software tools; Space exploration;
Conference_Titel :
Software Maintenance, 2005. ICSM'05. Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2368-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICSM.2005.66