Short-Term Revisit during Programming Tasks
Xiaoyu Jin, Nan Niu · 2017
Previous studies of Web page revisitation were only focused on long-term revisit ranging from hours to days. In this paper, we study the short-term revisit of less than one hour such as the revisit behavior during a small programming task. We first perform an exploratory study to observe the short-term revisit phenomenon. We then perform controlled experiments with our designed tool support as treatment by inviting 20 biomedical software developers to perform two software change tasks. Our results show that the participants with tool support used 19.7% less time than the ones without tool support.