Fluid source code views

Michael Desmond, Margaret Anne Storey, Chris Exton

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Abstract

Fluid documents enable the interactive incorporation of related material into a primary document. Visual cues within primary material indicate that related content is available and user interaction reveals related content in context. Fluid documents reduce the need for explicit navigation, maintain context when considering related material and support synthesization of disjoint yet related information. Source code documents are an excellent medium for the application of fluid document technology. The definition of software in the form of text based documents manifests a highly linked and fragmented information space requiring considerable navigation between elements during code examination and comprehension. In this paper we present fluid source code views, the application of fluid document technology to source code documents.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - Thirteenth International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning, TIME 2006
Pages260-263
Number of pages4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2006
Event14th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension, ICPC 2006 - Athens, Greece
Duration: 14 Jun 200616 Jun 2006

Publication series

NameIEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension
Volume2006

Conference

Conference14th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension, ICPC 2006
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityAthens
Period14/06/0616/06/06

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