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03.05.2023 by Roy Rutishauser

HASEL @ ICSE23 in Melbourne

We are happy to announce that we will be presenting our research on SALI, Semi-Automated Linking of Web Pages Inline, at this year’s International Conference on Software Engineering, which is taking place in Melbourne, Australia this week (May 14-20, 2023).

 

 

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Semi-Automatic, Inline and Collaborative Web Page Code Curations

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Software developers spend about a quarter of their workday using the web to fulfill various information needs. Searching for relevant information online can be time-consuming, yet acquired information is rarely systematically persisted for later reference. In this work, we introduce SALI, an approach for semi-automated linking web pages to source code locations inline with the source code. SALI helps developers naturally capture high-quality, explicit links between web pages and specific source code locations by suggesting links for curation within the IDE. Through two laboratory studies, we examined the developer’s ability to both curate and consume links between web pages and specific source code locations while performing software development tasks. The studies were performed with 20 subjects working on realistic software change tasks from widely-used open-source projects. Results showed that developers continuously and concisely curate web pages at meaningful locations in the code with little effort. Additionally, we showed that other developers could use these curations while performing new and different change tasks to speed up relevant information gathering within unfamiliar codebases by a factor of 2.4.