Context Modeling and Context Transition Detection in Software Development

Bruno Antunes, Joel Cordeiro, Paulo Gomes

2012

Abstract

As software development projects increase in size and complexity, developers are becoming overloaded and need to cope with a growing amount of contextual information. This information can be captured and processed in order to improve some of the tasks performed by developers during their work. We propose a context model that represents the focus of attention of the developer at each moment. This context model adapts to changes in the focus of attention of the developer through the automatic detection of context transitions. We have developed a prototype that was submitted to an experiment with a group of developers, to collect statistical information about the context modeling process and to manually validate the context transition mechanism.

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Antunes B., Cordeiro J. and Gomes P. (2012). Context Modeling and Context Transition Detection in Software Development . In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends - Volume 1: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-8565-19-8, pages 477-484. DOI: 10.5220/0004084204770484


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@conference{icsoft12,
author={Bruno Antunes and Joel Cordeiro and Paulo Gomes},
title={Context Modeling and Context Transition Detection in Software Development},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends - Volume 1: ICSOFT,},
year={2012},
pages={477-484},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004084204770484},
isbn={978-989-8565-19-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends - Volume 1: ICSOFT,
TI - Context Modeling and Context Transition Detection in Software Development
SN - 978-989-8565-19-8
AU - Antunes B.
AU - Cordeiro J.
AU - Gomes P.
PY - 2012
SP - 477
EP - 484
DO - 10.5220/0004084204770484