License: 
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (CC BY 3.0)
When quoting this document, please refer to the following
DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2016.6
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-60110
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2016/6011/
Sulír, Matúš ;
Porubän, Jaroslav
Locating User Interface Concepts in Source Code
Abstract
Developers often start their work by exploring a graphical user interface (GUI) of a program. They spot a textual label of interest in the GUI and try to find it in the source code, as a straightforward way of feature location. We performed a study on four Java applications, asking a simple question: Are strings displayed in the GUI of a running program present in its source code? We came to a conclusion that the majority of strings are present there; they occur mainly in Java and "properties" files.
BibTeX - Entry
@InProceedings{sulr_et_al:OASIcs:2016:6011,
author = {Mat{\'u}{\v{s}} Sul{\'i}r and Jaroslav Porub{\"a}n},
title = {{Locating User Interface Concepts in Source Code}},
booktitle = {5th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE'16)},
pages = {6:1--6:9},
series = {OpenAccess Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-95977-006-4},
ISSN = {2190-6807},
year = {2016},
volume = {51},
editor = {Marjan Mernik and Jos{\'e} Paulo Leal and Hugo Gon{\c{c}}alo Oliveira},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2016/6011},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-60110},
doi = {10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2016.6},
annote = {Keywords: Source code, graphical user interfaces, feature location}
}
|
Keywords: |
|
Source code, graphical user interfaces, feature location |
|
Collection: |
|
5th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE'16) |
|
Issue Date: |
|
2016 |
|
Date of publication: |
|
21.06.2016 |
