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6th Workshop on the Evaluation and Usability of Programming Languages and Tools (PLATEAU 2015), October 26, 2015, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

PLATEAU 2015 – Proceedings

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Frontmatter

Title Page
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Foreword
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Tools

Frequency Distribution of Error Messages
David Pritchard
(University of Waterloo, Canada)
Article: splashws15plateaumain-plateaumainid1-p (type: Full Paper (8 pages)) doi:
An Evaluation of the DiaSuite Toolset by Professional Developers: Learning Cost and Usability
Milan Kabáč, Nic Volanschi, and Charles Consel
(INRIA, France; University of Bordeaux, France)
Article: splashws15plateaumain-plateaumainid4-p (type: Full Paper (8 pages)) doi:
Aiding Programmers using Lightweight Integrated Code Visualization
Per Ola Kristensson and Chung Leung Lam
(University of Cambridge, UK)
Article: splashws15plateaumain-plateaumainid13-p (type: Full Paper (8 pages)) doi:
Towards Moldable Development Tools
Andrei Chiş, Oscar Nierstrasz, and Tudor Gîrba
(University of Bern, Switzerland; tudorgirba.com, Switzerland)
Article: splashws15plateaumain-plateaumainid2-p (type: Short Paper (2 pages)) doi:
Understanding the Effects of Code Presentation
Jason T. Jacques and Per Ola Kristensson
(University of Cambridge, UK)
Article: splashws15plateaumain-plateaumainid3-p (type: Short Paper (4 pages)) doi:

Programming Languages

A User Study for Comparing the Programming Efficiency of Modifying Executable Multimodal Interaction Descriptions: A Domain-Specific Language versus Equivalent Event-Callback Code
Fredy Cuenca, Jan Van den Bergh, Kris Luyten, and Karin Coninx
(University of Hasselt, Belgium; Transnational University of Limburg, Belgium; iMinds, Belgium)
Article: splashws15plateaumain-plateaumainid8-p (type: Full Paper (8 pages)) doi:
A Study on the Most Popular Questions about Concurrent Programming
Gustavo Pinto, Weslley Torres, and Fernando Castor
(Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil)
Article: splashws15plateaumain-plateaumainid11-p (type: Full Paper (8 pages)) doi:
Comparing Transitive to Non-transitive Object Immutability
Michael Coblenz, Joshua Sunshine, Brad A. Myers, Sam Weber, and Forrest Shull
(Carnegie Mellon University, USA; Software Engineering Institute, USA)
Article: splashws15plateaumain-plateaumainid5-p (type: Short Paper (2 pages)) doi:
Is Functional Programming Better for Modularity?
Ismael Figueroa and Romain Robbes
(Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile; University of Chile, Chile)
Article: splashws15plateaumain-plateaumainid12-p (type: Short Paper (4 pages)) doi:
Operators and Precedence in Programming Languages
Najwani Razali, James Noble, and Stuart Marshall
(Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
Article: splashws15plateaumain-plateaumainid6-p (type: Short Paper (4 pages)) doi:
Some Usability Hypotheses for Verification
David J. Pearce
(Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
Article: splashws15plateaumain-plateaumainid10-p (type: Short Paper (4 pages)) doi:

Group Discussion

On the Need to Define Community Agreements for Controlled Experiments with Human Subjects: A Discussion Paper
Stefan Hanenberg and Andreas Stefik
(University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany; University of Nevada at Las Vegas, USA)
Article: splashws15plateaumain-plateaumainid14-p (type: Full Paper (8 pages)) doi:

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