CHS: Medium: Collaborative Research: Code demography: Addressing information needs at scale for programming interface users and designers

CHS：媒介：协作研究：代码人口统计：大规模解决编程接口用户和设计者的信息需求

• 批准号: 1955394
• 负责人: Bjoern Hartmann
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1955394&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CHS; Medium; Collaborative; Research; Code

Society is undergoing a digital transformation. More and more aspects of life are touched by software. Programmers often write new software by combining pre-existing pieces of software in novel ways. These pre-existing pieces, called programming interfaces, are written by other programmers, to be reused. However, the creators of programming interfaces often do not know enough about how their work gets used by others. Users often face barriers in deciding which of a set of interfaces they should choose, and how to use them. This project will conduct studies to learn about the unmet needs of programmers and then create novel tools to support the design, comparison, and use of programming interfaces. For this investigation, the team will develop a software infrastructure that automatically analyzes and processes large sets of online code.This research will deepen our understanding of unmet information needs of programming interface designers and users, and how these are reflected in community usage data. To address the unmet needs, the team will perform an iterative design process, developing novel tools, interaction techniques, and implications for helping developers understand the big picture of existing code repositories. This is expected to help make emergent software design choices within a community explicit, rather than implicit, and for improving code quality. The research is based on an approach called code demography: the study of recurring patterns in large code corpora. It will apply code demography to investigate: (1) how to use programming interfaces in a particular context; (2) how to design and evolve a programming interface; and (3) how to assess and select among multiple programming interfaces with similar capabilities.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

社会正在进行数字化转型。软件触及了越来越多的生活方面。程序员通常通过以新颖的方式组合预先存在的软件来编写新软件。这些现有的称为编程界面的文章由其他程序员编写，以重复使用。但是，编程界面的创建者通常对他人如何使用他们的作品了解不足。用户经常在确定应该选择的一组界面以及如何使用它们时面临障碍。该项目将进行研究以了解程序员的未满足需求，然后创建新颖的工具来支持编程接口的设计，比较和使用。在此调查中，团队将开发一个软件基础架构，该软件基础架构自动分析和处理大量在线代码。这项研究将加深我们对编程接口设计人员和用户未满足的信息需求的理解，以及如何在社区使用数据中反映这些信息。为了满足未满足的需求，团队将执行一个迭代设计过程，开发新颖的工具，交互技术以及帮助开发人员了解现有代码存储库的全局。预计这将有助于在社区明确而不是隐式中做出新兴的软件设计选择，并提高代码质量。该研究基于一种称为代码人群的方法：大型代码语料库中经常性模式的研究。它将应用代码人群进行调查：（1）如何在特定上下文中使用编程界面； （2）如何设计和发展编程接口； （3）如何在具有相似功能的多个编程界面中进行评估和选择。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响标准，被认为值得通过评估来获得支持。

项目成果

Concept-Annotated Examples for Library Comparison

用于库比较的概念注释示例

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
• 作者: Litao Yan;Miryung Kim;Björn Hartmann;Tianyi Zhang;Elena L. Glassman
• 通讯作者: Elena L. Glassman

UMLAUT: Debugging Deep Learning Programs using Program Structure and Model Behavior

• DOI: 10.1145/3411764.3445538
• 发表时间: 2021-05
• 期刊: Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
• 作者: E. Schoop;Forrest Huang;Bjoern Hartmann