This Is Your Cue! Assisting Search Behaviour with Resource Style Properties
When learning a software technology, programmers face a large variety of resources in different styles and catering to different requirements. Although search engines are helpful to filter relevant resources, programmers are still required to manually go through a number of resources before they find one pertinent to their needs. Prior work has largely concentrated on helping programmers find the precise location of relevant information \textit{within} a resource. Our work focuses on helping programmers assess the pertinence of resources to differentiate \textit{between} resources. We investigated \textit{how} programmers find learning resources online via a diary and interview study, and observed that programmers use certain \textit{cues} to determine whether to access a resource. Based on our findings, we investigate the extent to which we can support the cue-following process via a prototype tool. Our research supports programmers' search behaviour for software technology learning resources to inform resource creators on important factors that programmers look for during their search.
Thu 17 NovDisplayed time zone: Beijing, Chongqing, Hong Kong, Urumqi change
11:00 - 12:30 | Session 2Doctoral Symposium at ERC Active Learning Room Chair(s): Michael Pradel University of Stuttgart | ||
11:00 30mTalk | This Is Your Cue! Assisting Search Behaviour with Resource Style Properties Doctoral Symposium Deeksha M. Arya McGill University DOI | ||
11:30 30mTalk | Infrastructure as Code for Dynamic Deployments Doctoral Symposium Daniel Sokolowski University of St. Gallen Link to publication DOI Pre-print | ||
12:00 30mTalk | Automated Capacity Analysis of Limitation-Aware Microservices Architectures Doctoral Symposium Rafael Fresno-Aranda University of Seville DOI |