An Unified Representation of Source Code Authoring Workflows

摘要

Existing approaches to modeling software development processes mostly deal with high-level processes at the level of project management. There are specific tasks that involve the analysis of processes at the level of writing and modifying the program code, but they lack a common reusable modeling framework. We suggest that a model of source code editing workflow would be beneficial for many tasks, from defect prediction to teaching programming to novices. We propose a unified approach that combines several levels of annotations, from keyboard events to task tracker issues and project planning.