Consensus task interaction trace recommender to guide developers’ software navigation

• Published in: Empirical software engineering : an international journal Vol. 29; no. 6; p. 147
• Main Authors: Etaiwi, Layan, Sager, Pascal, Guéhéneuc, Yann-Gaël, Hamel, Sylvie
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.11.2024; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Algorithms; Compilers; Computer Science; Effectiveness; Evaluation; Interpreters; Navigation; Programming Languages; Software; Software engineering; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems; Software industry; Source code; State-of-the-art reviews; Task complexity; Recommendation systems; Task-related interaction traces; Maintenance; Software navigation; Mylyn interaction traces; Consensus algorithm

Developers must complete change tasks on large software systems for maintenance and development purposes. Having a custom software system with numerous instances that meet the growing client demand for features and functionalities increases the software complexity. Developers, especially newcomers,...