"Information Foraging in Debugging"

11am Thursday, May 28, 2009
Brown University Computer Science Department - Room 368
115 Waterman Street, CIT 3rd Floor
Providence, RI 02912
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Shriram Krishnamurthi

Is navigating source code like browsing the web? This talk examines the relationship between information foraging theory and programmers' debugging behavior. The results demonstrate that information scent and spreading activation models can predict where programmers will need to navigate, by analyzing the contents of bug reports and source code. These findings promise to inform the design of tools to save programmers' time while tracking down bugs.

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