***Thursday October 13 ***1:00 - 1:50pm PLEASE NOTE THE SPECIAL TIME AND PLACE !! ***Weniger 149
Rob DeLine and Gina Venolia Microsoft Research Redmond, WA Programming as if People Mattered Despite stereotypes about solitary nerds in cubicles, corporate software development is a very social human activity. In recognition of this, over the past year, we've begun a new effort at Microsoft Research to combine ideas and research methods from HCI and CSCW with those from software engineering to produce new development tools. This talk provides a survey of our work so far: Team Tracks allows a new team member to quickly learn the team's source code by mining data about the team's browsing and editing habits; the Bridge makes it easy to find task-relevant context information, drawn from source history, bug databases, email, web sites, and online documents; Software Terrain Maps are designed to allow the developer to navigate around code using spatial memory rather than a web of memorized names and relationships. In short, we're studying software as if it were created by PEOPLE working TOGETHER. Biographies Rob DeLine and Gina Venolia call their group Human Interactions In Programming to ensure that all their research is HIP. Rob DeLine's research covers several academic disciplines: HCI (Alice), software architecture (UniCon, flexible packaging) and program verification (Vault, Fugue, Spec#). Gina Venolia has been a user interface architect with Microsoft Research since 1998. She has a checkered past that includes 15 years at Apple Computer, where, among other things, she shipped one of the original applications for the Lisa computer. _______________________________________________ Colloquium mailing list [email protected] https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/colloquium
