Smart tools/IDE

Some topics:

• visual environment (navigation/coding)

• code cloning

• collaborative tools

• history-based completion (Romain Robbes)

• http://hillside.net/plop/2006/Papers/ACM_Version/A_Pattern_Language_for_Extensible_Program_Representation.pdf

• re-thinking the IDE, not center on the code editor; begin with other views?

• orthogonal tools for selection vs analysis (allows one to select whatever data he wants to put in an analysis tool) (nowadays tools are often monolithic)

selection mechanisms:

• scope mechanism of Refactoring Browser - scoped impact

• smart groups of OB - used with search

• groups in Moose - query

• use of annotation to tag data (false positive...)

• degree-of-interest model

navigation mechanisms:

• visual metaphors to navigate in code
• daisy browser, daisy interaction (mouse movement based)

King browser:

• empty browser which dynamically populates with classes and methods browsed (landmarks): populate-and-forget (pin down landmark)
• dedicated browser for navigation/browsing only on the side