ADVANCES IN STRUCTURE EDITORS - Do They Really Pay Off?

Andreas Gomolka, Bernhard G. Humm

2011

Abstract

Structure editors emphasise a high-fidelity representation of the underlying tree structure of a program, often using a clearly identifiable 1-to-1 mapping between syntax tree elements and on-screen artefacts. This paper presents layout and behaviour principles for structure editors and a new structure editor for Lisp. The evaluation of the editor’s usability reveals an interesting mismatch. Whereas by far most participants of a questionnaire intuitively favour the structure editor to the textual editor, objective improvements are measurable, yet not significant.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Gomolka A. and G. Humm B. (2011). ADVANCES IN STRUCTURE EDITORS - Do They Really Pay Off? . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE, ISBN 978-989-8425-57-7, pages 60-69. DOI: 10.5220/0003428600600069

in Bibtex Style

@conference{enase11,
author={Andreas Gomolka and Bernhard G. Humm},
title={ADVANCES IN STRUCTURE EDITORS - Do They Really Pay Off?},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,},
year={2011},
pages={60-69},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003428600600069},
isbn={978-989-8425-57-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,
TI - ADVANCES IN STRUCTURE EDITORS - Do They Really Pay Off?
SN - 978-989-8425-57-7
AU - Gomolka A.
AU - G. Humm B.
PY - 2011
SP - 60
EP - 69
DO - 10.5220/0003428600600069