Onward! 2016
Sun 30 October - Fri 4 November 2016 Amsterdam, Netherlands
co-located with SPLASH 2016
Thu 3 Nov 2016 16:05 - 16:30 at Matterhorn 2 - Session 3 Chair(s): Hidehiko Masuhara

Software systems involve many different kinds of domain-specific and interrelated software entities. A common strategy employed by developers to deal with this reality is to perform exploratory investigations by means of searching. Nevertheless, most integrated development environments (IDEs) support searching through generic and disconnected search tools. This impedes search tasks over domain-specific entities, as considerable effort is wasted by developers locating and linking data and concepts relevant to their application domains.

To tackle this problem we propose Spotter, a moldable framework for supporting contextual-aware searching in IDEs by enabling developers to easily create custom searches for domain objects. In this paper we motivate a set of requirements for Spotter and show, through usage scenarios, that Spotter improves program comprehension by reducing the effort required to find and search through concepts from a wide range of domains. Furthermore, we show that by taking code into account, Spotter can provide a single entry point for embedding search support within an IDE.

Thu 3 Nov

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15:40 - 16:30
Session 3Onward! Papers at Matterhorn 2
Chair(s): Hidehiko Masuhara Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
15:40
25m
Talk
Object Spreadsheets: A New Computational Model for End-User Development of Data-Centric Web Applications
Onward! Papers
DOI Pre-print Media Attached
16:05
25m
Talk
Moldable, Context-Aware Searching with Spotter
Onward! Papers
Andrei Chiş University of Bern, Switzerland, Tudor Gîrba feenk.com, Juraj Kubelka University of Chile, Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland, Stefan Reichhart , Aliaksei Syrel University of Bern
DOI