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Spotter: towards a unified search interface in IDEs

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SPLASH Companion 2015: Companion Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2814189.2817269

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Program comprehension requires developers to reason about many kinds of highly interconnected software entities. Dealing with this reality prompts developers to continuously intertwine searching and navigation. Nevertheless, most integrated development environments (IDEs) address searching by means of many disconnected search tools, making it difficult for developers to reuse search results produced by one search tool as input for another search tool. This forces developers to spend considerable time manually linking disconnected search results. To address this issue we propose Spotter, a model for expressing and combining search tools in a unified way. The current implementation shows that Spotter can unify a wide range of search tools. More information about Spotter can be found at scg.unibe.ch/research/moldablespotter.

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Chiş AGîrba TKubelka JNierstrasz OReichhart SSyrel A(2017)Moldable Tools for Object-Oriented DevelopmentPresent and Ulterior Software Engineering10.1007/978-3-319-67425-4_6(77-101)Online publication date: 6-Sep-2017
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67425-4_6
Chiş AGîrba TKubelka JNierstrasz OReichhart SSyrel A(2016)Exemplifying Moldable DevelopmentProceedings of the Programming Experience 2016 (PX/16) Workshop10.1145/2984380.2984385(33-42)Online publication date: 18-Jul-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2984380.2984385
Merino LGhafari MNierstrasz OBergel AKubelka J(2016)MetaVis: Exploring Actionable Visualization2016 IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT)10.1109/VISSOFT.2016.19(151-155)Online publication date: Oct-2016
https://doi.org/10.1109/VISSOFT.2016.19

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Spotter: towards a unified search interface in IDEs
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. Development frameworks and environments

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SPLASH Companion 2015: Companion Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity

October 2015

112 pages

ISBN:9781450337229

DOI:10.1145/2814189

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Jonathan Aldrich
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
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Patrick Eugster
Purdue University, USA

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Chiş AGîrba TKubelka JNierstrasz OReichhart SSyrel A(2017)Moldable Tools for Object-Oriented DevelopmentPresent and Ulterior Software Engineering10.1007/978-3-319-67425-4_6(77-101)Online publication date: 6-Sep-2017
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67425-4_6
Chiş AGîrba TKubelka JNierstrasz OReichhart SSyrel A(2016)Exemplifying Moldable DevelopmentProceedings of the Programming Experience 2016 (PX/16) Workshop10.1145/2984380.2984385(33-42)Online publication date: 18-Jul-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2984380.2984385
Merino LGhafari MNierstrasz OBergel AKubelka J(2016)MetaVis: Exploring Actionable Visualization2016 IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT)10.1109/VISSOFT.2016.19(151-155)Online publication date: Oct-2016
https://doi.org/10.1109/VISSOFT.2016.19

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