Title

Code Bubbles: Rethinking The User Interface Paradigm Of Integrated Development Environments

Keywords

bubbles; concurrent views; debugging; human factors; integrated development environments; navigation; source code; working set

Abstract

Today's integrated development environments (IDEs) are hampered by their dependence on files and file-based editing. We propose a novel user interface that is based on collections of lightweight editable fragments, called bubbles, which when grouped together form concurrently visible working sets. In this paper we describe the design of a prototype IDE user interface for Java based on working sets. A quantitative evaluation shows that developers could expect to view a sizeable number of functions concurrently with relatively few UI operations. A qualitative user evaluation with 23 professional developers indicates a high level of excitement, interest, and potential benefits and uses. © 2010 ACM.

Publication Date

7-23-2010

Publication Title

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volume

1

Number of Pages

455-464

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1145/1806799.1806866

Socpus ID

77954725192 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/77954725192

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