Software Documentation and Augmented Reality: Love or Arranged Marriage?
There is a significant rise in the availability, development and size of software projects in the present day. Many open source projects are reused or updated for various purposes that include fixing bugs in existing projects, development and maintenance of project extensions. Developers who interact with the projects might require documentation for better comprehension of the project and to develop extensions. Most of the software projects currently do not have sufficient documentation or it is not updated along with the project. If some projects have reasonably sufficient documentation, it is usually difficult to comprehend it either for maintenance or for reuse purposes. Considering the usefulness of Augmented Reality (AR) towards comprehension, we propose the vision of integrating the domains of augmented reality and software documentation, and specifically, visualization of software documentation using AR. In this paper, we present some of the directions that could be explored towards this vision and also present an example visualization scenario for API documentation using neural system metaphor. We see this paper as a basis for the future research direction of leveraging AR towards making documentation as a primary artifact in the software development process.
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01:30 - 02:00 | DocumentationResearch Papers / Visions and Reflections / Paper Presentations / Journal First / Tool Demos at Virtual room 1 | ||
01:30 2mTalk | Beyond Accuracy: Assessing Software Documentation Quality Visions and Reflections Christoph Treude University of Adelaide, Australia, Justin Middleton North Carolina State University, USA, Thushari Atapattu The University of Adelaide DOI | ||
01:33 1mTalk | Contextual Documentation Referencing on Stack Overflow Journal First Sebastian Baltes QAware GmbH and The University of Adelaide, Christoph Treude University of Adelaide, Australia, Martin P. Robillard McGill University Pre-print | ||
01:35 1mTalk | DeepCommenter: A Deep Code Comment Generation Tool with Hybrid Lexical and Syntactical Information Tool Demos Boao Li Zhejiang University, China, Meng Yan Chongqing University, Xin Xia Monash University, Xing Hu Peking University, Ge Li Peking University, David Lo Singapore Management University DOI | ||
01:37 1mTalk | Docable: Evaluating the Executability of Software Tutorials Research Papers Samim Mirhosseini North Carolina State University, USA, Chris Parnin North Carolina State University, USA DOI Pre-print | ||
01:39 1mTalk | RulePad: Interactive Authoring of Checkable Design Rules Research Papers Sahar Mehrpour George Mason University, USA, Thomas LaToza George Mason University, USA, Hamed Sarvari George Mason University, USA DOI Pre-print | ||
01:41 1mTalk | Software Documentation and Augmented Reality: Love or Arranged Marriage? Visions and Reflections Sridhar Chimalakonda Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, Akhila Sri Manasa Venigalla IIT Tirupati, India DOI | ||
01:43 17mTalk | Conversations on Documentation Paper Presentations Akhila Sri Manasa Venigalla , Christoph Treude University of Adelaide, Australia, Sahar Mehrpour George Mason University, USA, Samim Mirhosseini North Carolina State University, USA, Sridhar Chimalakonda Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, M: Venera Arnaoudova Washington State University |