Speculative reprogramming

Marc Palyart, Gail C. Murphy, Emerson R. Murphy-Hill, Xavier Blanc

Abstract

Although software development involves making numerous decisions amongst alternatives, the design and implementation choices made typically become invisible; what a developer sees in the project's artifacts are the end result of all of the decisions. What if, instead, all of the choices made were tracked and it was easy for a developer to revisit a point where a decision was made and choose another alternative? What if the development environment could detect and suggest alternative choices? What if it was easy and low-cost to try another path? We explore the idea of speculative reprogramming that could support a what-if environment for the programming stages of software development.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{Palyart-al:FSE14,
  author    = {Marc Palyart and
               Gail C. Murphy and
               Emerson R. Murphy{-}Hill and
               Xavier Blanc},
  title     = {Speculative reprogramming},
  booktitle = {FSE},
  pages     = {837--840},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year      = {2014},
}

Speculative reprogramming

Abstract

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