Sebastian Baltes

Software Engineering
Empirical Research
Interdisciplinarity

Supplementary Material for paper “Navigate, Understand, Communicate: How Developers Locate Performance Bugs”

  1. Tutorial: We provide the slides ( PDF) and the video ( MP4) we used in the tutorial phase of our study.

  2. Locating Bugs: We also provide supplementary material for each research question. The advices we prepared for each bug in case a team got stuck can be found here ( ZI­­­P). The questions we asked after each bug fixing session can be found on the slides ( PDF).

    • RQ1: Navigating and Understanding

      • RQ1.1: How was information from the profiling tool or other parts of the IDE used to locate the performance bug? Cross-case analysis (in German) ( XLSX)

      • RQ1.2: Is the in-situ visualization of the profiling data beneficial compared to a traditional list representation? Cross-case analysis (in German) ( XLSX)

      • RQ1.3: What navigation strategies do developers pursue to locate a specific performance bug? Interaction logs ( ZI­­­P) • Navigation visualizations ( ZI­­­P) • Screen recordings for Bug 3 (without audio because of confidentiality) ( Group 1, Group 2, Group 3, Group 4, Group 5, Group 6)

    • RQ2: Understanding and Communicating

  3. Questionnaire: The questionnaire that the participants filled out at the end of the study can be found here ( PDF).

Cite the dataset as:

How Developers Locate Performance Bugs — Supplementary Material.
Sebastian Baltes, Oliver Moseler, Fabian Beck, and Stephan Diehl.
http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.818592

The dataset is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Bugs Used In The Study

  1. Apache Commons Collections:

  2. Guava (Google Core Libraries for Java):

    • #1155: Performance of ImmutableSet.contains.

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