ADVANCES IN STRUCTURE EDITORS - Do They Really Pay Off?

Andreas Gomolka, Bernhard G. Humm

2011

Abstract

Structure editors emphasise a high-fidelity representation of the underlying tree structure of a program, often using a clearly identifiable 1-to-1 mapping between syntax tree elements and on-screen artefacts. This paper presents layout and behaviour principles for structure editors and a new structure editor for Lisp. The evaluation of the editor’s usability reveals an interesting mismatch. Whereas by far most participants of a questionnaire intuitively favour the structure editor to the textual editor, objective improvements are measurable, yet not significant.

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Gomolka A. and G. Humm B. (2011). ADVANCES IN STRUCTURE EDITORS - Do They Really Pay Off? . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE, ISBN 978-989-8425-57-7, pages 60-69. DOI: 10.5220/0003428600600069


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@conference{enase11,
author={Andreas Gomolka and Bernhard G. Humm},
title={ADVANCES IN STRUCTURE EDITORS - Do They Really Pay Off?},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,},
year={2011},
pages={60-69},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003428600600069},
isbn={978-989-8425-57-7},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,
TI - ADVANCES IN STRUCTURE EDITORS - Do They Really Pay Off?
SN - 978-989-8425-57-7
AU - Gomolka A.
AU - G. Humm B.
PY - 2011
SP - 60
EP - 69
DO - 10.5220/0003428600600069