TY - GEN
T1 - A study of visual studio usage in practice
AU - Amann, Sven
AU - Proksch, Sebastian
AU - Nadi, Sarah
AU - Mezini, Mira
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE
PY - 2016/5/20
Y1 - 2016/5/20
N2 - Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) provide a convenient standalone solution that supports developers during various phases of software development. In order to provide better support for developers within such IDEs, we need to understand how much time developers spend using various parts of a given IDE and how often they use available assistance tools. To infer useful conclusions, such information should be gathered for different types of IDEs for different languages. In this paper, we instrument the previously unexplored Visual Studio IDE and track the interactions of developers at an industry partner's software-development department. As a result, we capture interactions for more than 6300 hours of work time, from between 27 and 84 professional C# developers. Our work reports how much time professional developers spend on activities such as code editing and execution or navigation, as well as how often they use assistance tools provided by the IDE. We compare our findings to those of prior studies involving other IDEs and discuss the implications of the commonalities and differences for research on (integrated) developer-assistance tools.
AB - Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) provide a convenient standalone solution that supports developers during various phases of software development. In order to provide better support for developers within such IDEs, we need to understand how much time developers spend using various parts of a given IDE and how often they use available assistance tools. To infer useful conclusions, such information should be gathered for different types of IDEs for different languages. In this paper, we instrument the previously unexplored Visual Studio IDE and track the interactions of developers at an industry partner's software-development department. As a result, we capture interactions for more than 6300 hours of work time, from between 27 and 84 professional C# developers. Our work reports how much time professional developers spend on activities such as code editing and execution or navigation, as well as how often they use assistance tools provided by the IDE. We compare our findings to those of prior studies involving other IDEs and discuss the implications of the commonalities and differences for research on (integrated) developer-assistance tools.
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U2 - 10.1109/SANER.2016.39
DO - 10.1109/SANER.2016.39
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85113839743
T3 - 2016 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering, SANER 2016
SP - 124
EP - 134
BT - 2016 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering, SANER 2016
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 23rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering, SANER 2016
Y2 - 14 March 2016 through 18 March 2016
ER -