Tracking source locations

Many programming tools require information to be associated with source locations. Current tools do this in different ways with different degrees of effectiveness. This paper is an investigation into the various approaches to maintaining source locations. It is based on an experiment that attempts t...

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Main Author: Reiss, Steven P.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Animation
Computer bugs
Computer science
Java
Maintenance engineering
Position measurement
Programming profession
Radio access networks
Software algorithms
Software and its engineering > Software notations and tools > Development frameworks and environments
software evolution
source lines
tool support
Visualization
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Summary:Many programming tools require information to be associated with source locations. Current tools do this in different ways with different degrees of effectiveness. This paper is an investigation into the various approaches to maintaining source locations. It is based on an experiment that attempts to track a variety of locations over the evolution of a source file. The results demonstrate that relatively simple techniques can be very effective.
ISSN:0270-5257
1558-1225
DOI:10.1145/1368088.1368091