Developers attentiveness to example usage

Ohad Barzilay*, Amiram Yehudai, Orit Hazzan

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Abstract

As part of our research on the use of code examples in professional programming, we focus on the developer's awareness and attentiveness to example usage. We identify three types of lack of attentiveness: lack of awareness that causes professional developers to use examples only in certain contexts but not in others, lack of attentiveness to examples of different scales, and lack of attentiveness to the variety of purposes examples may serve. We present a qualitative research followed by a focus group case study that illustrate our findings.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2nd Workshop on Human Aspects of Software Engineering, HAoSE 2010 - SPLASH 2010 Workshop Summary
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Print)9781450305433
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Event2nd Workshop on Human Aspects of Software Engineering, HAoSE 2010 - Systems Programming Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity, SPLASH 2010 - Reno, NV, United States
Duration: 17 Oct 201021 Oct 2010

Publication series

Name2nd Workshop on Human Aspects of Software Engineering, HAoSE 2010 - SPLASH 2010 Workshop Summary

Conference

Conference2nd Workshop on Human Aspects of Software Engineering, HAoSE 2010 - Systems Programming Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity, SPLASH 2010
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityReno, NV
Period17/10/1021/10/10

Keywords

  • Attentiveness
  • Awareness
  • Empirical software engineering research
  • Example embedding ecosystem
  • Example usage
  • Examples
  • Qualitative methodology
  • Software activity

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