Title :
A study on repetitiveness of code completion operations
Author :
Omori, Tatsuya ; Kuwabara, H. ; Maruyama, Kazunori
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Ritsumeikan Univ., Kusatsu, Japan
Abstract :
In current software development, code completion is necessary to enhance productivity of our programming tasks. However, how developers use code completion tools on integrated development environments is still not elucidated completely. Aiming to improve such tools, we performed an investigation in terms of code completion use. We investigated developers´ operation histories on an integrated development environment and found that code completion operations inserting the same text tend to be repetitively performed in a short time period. We also propose new code completion strategies to reduce such repetitive code completion.
Keywords :
software engineering; source coding; code completion operation repetitiveness; code completion tools; code completion use; developer operation histories; integrated development environments; programming task productivity; repetitive code completion; software development; Conferences; Context; History; Java; Proposals; Software maintenance; change-aware development environments; code completion; edit history;
Conference_Titel :
Software Maintenance (ICSM), 2012 28th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Trento
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2313-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICSM.2012.6405327