CoExist overcoming aversion to change preserving immediate access to source code and run-time information of previous development states
- Programmers make many changes to the program to eventually find a good solution for a given task. In this course of change, every intermediate development state can of value, when, for example, a promising ideas suddenly turn out inappropriate or the interplay of objects turns out more complex than initially expected before making changes. Programmers would benefit from tool support that provides immediate access to source code and run-time of previous development states of interest. We present IDE extensions, implemented for Squeak/Smalltalk, to preserve, retrieve, and work with this information. With such tool support, programmers can work without worries because they can rely on tools that help them with whatever their explorations will reveal. They no longer have to follow certain best practices only to avoid undesired consequences of changing code.
Author details: | Bastian Steinert, Damien Cassou, Robert HirschfeldORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1145/2480360.2384591 |
ISSN: | 0362-1340 |
Title of parent work (English): | ACM SIGPLAN notices |
Publisher: | Association for Computing Machinery |
Place of publishing: | New York |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of first publication: | 2013 |
Publication year: | 2013 |
Release date: | 2017/03/26 |
Tag: | Continuous Testing; Continuous Versioning; Debugging; Design; Evolution; Experimentation; Explore-first Programming; Fault Localization; Human Factors; Prototyping |
Volume: | 48 |
Issue: | 2 |
Number of pages: | 11 |
First page: | 107 |
Last Page: | 117 |
Funding institution: | Hasso Plattner Design Thinking Research Program |
Organizational units: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Informatik und Computational Science |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Institution name at the time of the publication: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Informatik |