Enhancing annotation visibility for software inspection

Author

Stein, Michael V. ; Heimdahl, Mats P E ; Riedl, John T.

Author_Institution

Metropolitan State (MN) Univ., USA

fYear

1999

fDate

36434

Firstpage

243

Lastpage

246

Abstract

Annotation of software artifacts is common in software development, and vital for software inspection. People viewing annotated artifacts encounter delocalization: they must understand various parts of an artifact (and their annotations) to understand the part they are viewing. We taxonomize delocalization within software systems into lateral delocalization (different items of the artifact within the same development phase), longitudinal delocalization (related items in different phases), and historical delocalization (successive versions of the same item). We report on a pilot study of code inspection with AnnoSpec, an inspection tool supporting visibility of laterally-delocalized annotations. Our results suggest that addressing delocalization may help people perform inspections more effectively

Keywords

inspection; program diagnostics; software tools; AnnoSpec; annotated artifacts; annotation visibility; code inspection; delocalization; development phase; historical delocalization; inspection tool; lateral delocalization; laterally-delocalized annotations; longitudinal delocalization; software artifacts; software inspection; software systems; Filtering; Filters; Inspection; Programming; Roads; Software engineering; Software systems; Software testing; Software tools; Terminology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Automated Software Engineering, 1999. 14th IEEE International Conference on.

Conference_Location

Cocoa Beach, FL

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0415-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ASE.1999.802288

Filename

802288