Title
A cross-tool communication study on program analysis tool notifications.
Abstract
Program analysis tools use notifications to communicate with developers, but previous research suggests that developers encounter challenges that impede this communication. This paper describes a qualitative study that identifies 10 kinds of challenges that cause notifications to miscommunicate with developers. Our resulting notification communication theory reveals that many challenges span multiple tools and multiple levels of developer experience. Our results suggest that, for example, future tools that model developer experience could improve communication and help developers build more accurate mental models.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1145/2950290.2950304
SIGSOFT FSE
Keywords
Field
DocType
program analysis tools,human factors,communication
Software engineering,Computer science,Communication theory,Theoretical computer science,Human–computer interaction,Program analysis,Qualitative research
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.47
25
Authors
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Brittany Johnson11878.43
Rahul Pandita223812.62
Justin Smith39711.74
Denae Ford4676.03
Sarah Elder570.47
Emerson R. Murphy-hill6128474.35
Sarah Smith Heckman711112.67
Caitlin Sadowski852424.07