Towards an eye-tracking enabled IDE for software traceability tasks

Author

Walters, Bob ; Falcone, Maurizio ; Shibble, Alexander ; Sharif, Bonita

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Syst., Youngstown State Univ., Youngstown, OH, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

19-19 May 2013

Firstpage

51

Lastpage

54

Abstract

The paper presents iTrace, an eye-tracking plug-in for the Eclipse IDE. The premise is to use developers´ eye gaze as input to traceability tasks such as generating links between various artifacts. The design, architecture, and current state of iTrace is described. Support for a variety of traceability tasks such as link retrieval, link evolution, link visualization, and empirical studies are also discussed. An initial link generation heuristic using iTrace is presented with plans for future evaluation.

Keywords

data visualisation; information retrieval; programming environments; software engineering; empirical analysis; eye gaze; eye-tracking enabled Eclipse IDE; eye-tracking plug-in; iTrace architecture; iTrace design; iTrace state; link evolution; link generation heuristic; link retrieval; link visualization; software traceability tasks; Calibration; Electronic mail; Java; Layout; Software; Unified modeling language; Visualization; Eclipse plug-in; Eye-tracking; traceability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Traceability in Emerging Forms of Software Engineering (TEFSE), 2013 International Workshop on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TEFSE.2013.6620154

Filename

6620154