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Locating User Interface Concepts in Source Code

Authors Matúš Sulír, Jaroslav Porubän

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  • Source code
  • graphical user interfaces
  • feature location

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Abstract

Developers often start their work by exploring a graphical user interface (GUI) of a program. They spot a textual label of interest in the GUI and try to find it in the source code, as a straightforward way of feature location. We performed a study on four Java applications, asking a simple question: Are strings displayed in the GUI of a running program present in its source code? We came to a conclusion that the majority of strings are present there; they occur mainly in Java and "properties" files.

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Matúš Sulír and Jaroslav Porubän. Locating User Interface Concepts in Source Code. In 5th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE'16). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 51, pp. 6:1-6:9, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016) https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2016.6

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Matúš Sulír
Jaroslav Porubän

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