This page provides supporting material for the paper Two Studies of Framework-Usage Templates Extracted from Dynamic Traces submitted to IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering in 2010.

Tools

The FUDA technique is prototyped as an integrated tool for Java consisting of two parts:

• FUDA Analyzer
• FUDA Profiler (Tracer)

Template Quality Evaluation

• The following tables present the templates generated using the FUDA framework comprehension technique for 14 different concepts on top of 5 widely used frameworks when one, two, or three sample applications are used.
• Each sub-section contains a table for one of the frameworks. The table contains sections for each concept, which is specified by a defining question.
• In each template, the lines in BLACK illustrate mandatory implementation steps (i.e., reference template), the lines in BLUE indicate optional implementation steps, and the lines in RED show errors.
• For those templates that include false negatives, a description of false negatives is provided at the end of the template.

Template Usage Evaluation

This section contains the material prepared and collected during the empirical evaluation of Template Usage. We first list the documents we prepared and the subsequent sections list the resulting questionnaires and present the collected data.

Overview and Background Documents

• Experiment Overview Document
• Background Questionnaire

Tutorials

• Tutorial for Object-Oriented Software Frameworks
• Tutorial for Eclipse
• Tutorial for the Syntax and Semantics of FUDA Templates

Implementation Task Material (additional web pages)

• Use Template to implement Context Menu
• Use Documentation to implement Context Menu
• Use Template to implement Content Assist
• Use Documentation to implement Content Assist
• Use Template to implement Navigate
• Use Documentation to implement Navigate
• Use Template to implement Table Viewer
• Use Documentation to implement Table Viewer

Subjects Background Questionnaires

This table presents the background questionnaires filled by subjects. Subjects are categorized into the experienced and moderate subjects based on their experience with the Eclipse and JFace frameworks.

Subjects Experiment Reports

This table presents the reports sent by subjects immediately after performing concept-implementation tasks.