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.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Johnson-al:FSE16,
author = {Brittany Johnson and
Rahul Pandita and
Justin Smith and
Denae Ford and
Sarah Elder and
Emerson R. Murphy{-}Hill and
Sarah Heckman and
Caitlin Sadowski},
title = {A cross-tool communication study on program analysis tool notifications},
booktitle = {FSE},
pages = {73--84},
publisher = {{ACM}},
year = {2016},
}