Developers' effort, exploration, strategies, Mylyn

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Exploration
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Introduction
Context and Example
Why do we care?
User Study
Research Question
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On the Effect of Program Exploration on
Maintenance Tasks
Empirical Study
Research Questions
RQ1
RQ2
Discussions
Conclusion and
Future Work
Conclusion
Threats to Validity
and Future Work
Z´phyrin Soh, Foutse Khomh, Yann-Ga¨l Gu´h´neuc,
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Giuliano Antoniol, Bram Adams
Department of Computer and Software Engineering
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Ecole Polytechnique de Montr´al, Qu´bec, Canada
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October 14, 2013
Pattern Trace Identification, Detection, and Enhancement in Java
SOftware Cost-effective Change and Evolution Research Lab

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Program Exploration
Developers interact with program entities, e.g., open
files, edit methods, etc.
Developers explore the program, i.e., move from
program entities to program entities.
Types of program entities.

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Containment
Introduction principle:
the exploration graph
Context and Example (2/3)
Aggregate
at class level

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Exploration graph aggregated at class level

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Introduction
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A graph
represents a program exploration
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(a) Graph 1
(b) Graph 2
Is there any difference between exploration graphs?
How to find the difference?
How does the difference affect the maintenance tasks?
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Research on Program Exploration
Developers spend on average 35% of their time
navigating within and between source files [1]
Developers perform on average 19.31 navigation actions
between two modifications [2]
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[1] Ko et al., An exploratory study of how developers seek, relate, and collect
relevant information during software maintenance tasks. TSE 2006
[2] D. R¨thlisberger, SmartGroups: Focusing on Task-Relevant Source
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Artifacts in IDEs, ICPC 2011
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Reasons of Program Exploration
Developers may have several different ways to explore a
program e.g.,
Looking for relevant entities ⇒ Some developers (may)
not know where to look at.
Validate previous changes ⇒ Developers (may) know
the target entity to look at.
⇒ In some cases, developers may perform more back and
forth navigations (i.e., revisitation) on program entities
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Revisitation-based Exploration
Some recommendation systems (e.g., Mylyn [3],
NavClus [4]) are based on the revisitation of program
entities
We wonder if revisitation is “good“ or “bad“
⇒ Knowing that is helpful to improve revisitation-based
approach for recommendation systems.
[3] Kersten and Murphy, Mylar: a degree-of-interest model for IDEs, AOSD
2005
[4] Lee and Kang, Clustering and recommending collections of code relevant
to tasks, ICSM 2011
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Exploration Strategies
In the revisitation-based exploration, we focus on two
extreme cases:
Referenced Exploration (RE): A developer revisits one
(or a set of) entity(ies) already visited
⇒ referenced entities
Unreferenced Exploration (UE): There is no set of
referenced entities
⇒ Almost the same revisitation of program entity(ies)

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Exploration Strategies
In the revisitation-based exploration, we focus on two
extreme cases:
Referenced Exploration (RE): A developer revisits one
(or a set of) entity(ies) already visited
⇒ referenced entities
Unreferenced Exploration (UE): There is no set of
referenced entities
⇒ Almost the same revisitation of program entity(ies)
Do developers follow a referenced exploration when
performing maintenance tasks?
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User Study
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Data Collection
Mylyn’s IHs appear as attachment (XML file with name
“mylyn-context.zip”) to a bug

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Data Collection
Mylyn’s IHs appear as attachment (XML file with name
“mylyn-context.zip”) to a bug
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Top four Eclipse projects with more IHs (from 2,601 bugs)
ECF Mylyn PDE Platform Total
# IHs
26
1,273
131
275 1,705
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How do we build an oracle?
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Random sample of IHs
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9 subjects
Java experience
- mean : 4.16 yrs
-sd : 2.80 yrs
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- mean : 4.16 yrs
-sd : 2.80 yrs
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How do we build an oracle?
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- mean : 4.16 yrs
-sd : 2.80 yrs
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Random sample of IHs
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How much the subjects agreed?
Fliess' Kappa interater agreement coeficient
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- Overall: fair agreement (0.36)
- RE: almost moderate agreement (0.38)
- UE: almost moderate agreement (0.39)
- Doubt: No agreement (-0.009)
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Java experience
- mean : 4.16 yrs
-sd : 2.80 yrs
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RE
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RE
RE
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>= 2/3 subjects
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RE
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UE
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Identification Technique
Subjects count the number of nodes and the number of in/out arrows in the graphs
⇒ look at the distribution/inequality of revisits across graphs

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Subjects count the number of nodes and the number of in/out arrows in the graphs
⇒ look at the distribution/inequality of revisits across graphs
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Gini Inequality Index [5]
We measure how much classes are (in)equally revisited
Used in econometrics to measure the inequality of
income among a population
Population = classes
Income of a class = NumRevisits
Gini(IH) =
1
2n2 µ
n
n
i=1 j=1
| NumRevisit(eni ) − NumRevisit(enj ) |
[5] K. Xu, How has the literature on Gini’s index evolved in the past 80 years?,
Technical report, Department of Economics, Dalhouse University, 2004
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Inequality Index Threshold
Define a threshold to know if classes are (in)equally revisited
If Gini(IH) < Threshold
⇒ Classes are almost equally revisited
⇒ UE: Unreferenced Exploration
If Gini(IH) ≥ Threshold
⇒ Some classes are more revisited than others
⇒ RE: Referenced Exploration

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inequality

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- Threshold = 0.2 ==> RE
- Threshold = 0.3 ==> UE
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Use F-Measure to maximize both precision and recall
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Percentage RE vs. UE
RE: 28.03% of Interaction Histories
UE: 71.96% of Interaction Histories
⇒ Developers follow mostly the unreferenced
exploration (UE) when performing a maintenance task.

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Percentage RE vs. UE
RE: 28.03% of Interaction Histories
UE: 71.96% of Interaction Histories
⇒ Developers follow mostly the unreferenced
exploration (UE) when performing a maintenance task.
Methodical developers do not reinvestigate methods as
frequently as opportunistic developers [6]
RE = opportunistic developers?
UE = methodical developers?
⇒ We need more investigations
[6] Robillard et al., How effective developers investigate source code: An
exploratory study, TSE 2004
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Confounding Factors
Architecture of the system

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Confounding Factors
Architecture of the system
Number of common classes (NCC): The more A and B
have CC, the more they used the same part of the
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Confounding Factors
Architecture of the system
Number of common classes (NCC): The more A and B
have CC, the more they used the same part of the
system
Compute NCC for each pair of IH.
NCC pairs with same ES vs. NCC pairs with different
ES ⇒ No difference.

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Confounding Factors
Architecture of the system
Number of common classes (NCC): The more A and B
have CC, the more they used the same part of the
system
Compute NCC for each pair of IH.
NCC pairs with same ES vs. NCC pairs with different
ES ⇒ No difference.
Task interruption: The interruption time seems to push
developers to be concentrate on a set of (referenced)
entities (RE)

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Confounding Factors
Architecture of the system
Number of common classes (NCC): The more A and B
have CC, the more they used the same part of the
system
Compute NCC for each pair of IH.
NCC pairs with same ES vs. NCC pairs with different
ES ⇒ No difference.
Task interruption: The interruption time seems to push
developers to be concentrate on a set of (referenced)
entities (RE)
Type of the task: Bug severity because developers may
have more back and forth navigation when fixing severe
bugs wrt. less severe bugs
Inequality Indexes are not significantly different for
different types of bugs.
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Does any difference exist in maintenance time between RE and UE?
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Does any difference exist in edit/navigation ratio
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RQ1
Approach
Overall Time spend =
Unpaired Wilcoxon test
Duration(entity )
#entity
entity ∈IH

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Overall Time spend =
Duration(entity )
#entity
entity ∈IH
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Results
The UE is on average 12.30% less time consuming
than the RE.

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Edit/navigation ratio =
Unpaired Wilcoxon test
NumEdit(IH)
NumEvent(IH)

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Edit/navigation ratio =
NumEdit(IH)
NumEvent(IH)
Unpaired Wilcoxon test
Results
An UE requires less edit/navigation ratio than a
RE.

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Is there a good strategy?
RE (more) ⇒ The back and forth actions on refUE (less) erenced entities are time consuming
⇒ More edit actions compare to navRE (more)
igation actions. Wrong edits/modif.
UE (less)
then come back to revert/cancel?

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User Study
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Results
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⇒ More edit actions compare to navRE (more)
igation actions. Wrong edits/modif.
UE (less)
then come back to revert/cancel?
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F1
F2
F1
F3
F1
F4
F1
F2
F3
F1
F4
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4/8 > 3/6 (RE better)
F2
3/6
F5
4/8

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User Study
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Results
Empirical Study
⇒ More edit actions compare to navRE (more)
igation actions. Wrong edits/modif.
UE (less)
then come back to revert/cancel?
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F1
F2
F1
F3
F1
F4
F1
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F3
F1
F4
F5
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4/8 > 3/6 (RE better)
F2
3/6
F5
4/8
2/8
2/6
2/8 < 2/6 (UE better)

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0.4
0
Perfect
equality
1
UE
RE
Maximum
inequality
Use F-Measure to maximize both precision and recall

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Perfect
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UE
RE
Maximum
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Use F-Measure to maximize both precision and recall

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Perfect
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Use F-Measure to maximize both precision and recall

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Threats to Validity and Future Work
Construct validity: An IH can be a part of developers’
work

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Construct validity: An IH can be a part of developers’
work
Conclusion validity: The time recorded can be
different to the “real” time spent
⇒ Perform an experiment to collect a data

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Construct validity: An IH can be a part of developers’
work
Conclusion validity: The time recorded can be
different to the “real” time spent
⇒ Perform an experiment to collect a data
Internal validity: We use only Mylyn’s IH
⇒ Use the IH from other tools

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Threats to Validity and Future Work
Construct validity: An IH can be a part of developers’
work
Conclusion validity: The time recorded can be
different to the “real” time spent
⇒ Perform an experiment to collect a data
Internal validity: We use only Mylyn’s IH
⇒ Use the IH from other tools
External validity: Our subject projets are Eclipse-based
projects
⇒ Use other systems
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0.4
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Perfect
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RE
Maximum
inequality
Use F-Measure to maximize both precision and recall