Andrew Ko, Htet Htet Aung, and Brad Myers Win Best Paper Award at ICSE'05
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Andrew J. Ko, Htet Htet Aung, and Brad A. Myers won the Best Paper Award at the 27th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'05) in St. Louis, Missouri.
The authors of the winning paper, “Eliciting Design Requirements for Maintenance-Oriented IDEs: A Detailed Study of Corrective and Perfective Maintenance Tasks”, studied expert Java programmers making some small changes to unfamiliar code in a laboratory study, to see what they could learn that might help make the programming tools of the future more helpful to programmers. They found out, for example, that the Java programmers seemed to go about this in three phases: looking around to try to find the right part of the code, then looking around inside this code to understand it, and finally doing the edits. They spent quite a lot of time (35% of their time) in low-level navigation tasks like scrolling, that the authors think future tools could reduce, thereby increasing programmer productivity.