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Toward a better understanding of tool usage

Alberto Sillitti, Giancarlo Succi, Jelena Vlasenko

PDFDOI 10.1145/1985793.1985917dblp

Abstract

Developers use tools to develop software systems and always alleged better tools are being produced and purchased. Still there have been only limited studies on how people really use tools; these studies have used limited data, and the interactions between tools have not been properly elaborated. The advent of the AISEMA (Automated In-Process Software Engineering Measurement and Analysis) systems [3] has enabled a more detailed collection of tools data. Our "new idea" is to take advantage of such data to build a simple model based on an oriented graph that enables a good understanding on how tools are used individually and collectively. We have empirically validated the model analyzing an industrial team of 19 developers for a period of 10 months.

BibTeX
@inproceedings{Sillitti-al:ICSE11,
  author    = {Alberto Sillitti and
               Giancarlo Succi and
               Jelena Vlasenko},
  title     = {Toward a better understanding of tool usage},
  booktitle = {ICSE},
  pages     = {832--835},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year      = {2011},
}

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