Onward! 2014
Mon 20 - Fri 24 October 2014 Portland, Oregon, United States
co-located with SPLASH 2014
Fri 24 Oct 2014 10:52 - 11:15 at Salon A - Session the Fourth Chair(s): Emery D. Berger

Programmers working in a Unix environment can easily build custom tools by configuring and combining small filter programs in shell scripts. When leaving the text-based world and entering the graphics-based one, however, tool building is more difficult because graphical tools are typically not prepared to be easily re-programmed by its users. We propose a data-driven perspective on graphical tools that uses concise scripts as glue between data and views but also as means to express missing data transformations and view items. Given this, we built a framework in Squeak/Smalltalk that promotes low-effort tool construction; it works well for basic programming tools, such as code editors and debuggers, but also for other domains, such as developer chats and issue browsers. We think that this perspective on graphical tools can inspire the creation of new trade-offs in modularity for both data-providing projects and interactive views.

Fri 24 Oct

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10:30 - 12:00
Session the FourthOnward! Papers at Salon A
Chair(s): Emery D. Berger University of Massachusetts, Amherst
10:30
22m
Talk
Phrase-Based Statistical Translation of Programming Languages
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Svetoslav Karaivanov ETH Zurich, Veselin Raychev ETH Zurich, Martin Vechev ETH Zurich
10:52
22m
Talk
Interleaving of Modification and Use in Data-driven Tool Development
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Marcel Taeumel Hasso Plattner Institute, Michael Perscheid Hasso Plattner Institute, Bastian Steinert Hasso Plattner Institute, Jens Lincke Hasso Plattner Institute, Robert Hirschfeld HPI
11:15
22m
Talk
Unifying Textual and Visual: a Theoretical Account of the Visual Perception of Programming Languages
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Stéphane Conversy University of Toulouse - ENAC
11:37
22m
Talk
Variational Data Structures: Exploring Tradeoffs in Computing with Variability
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Eric Walkingshaw University of Marburg, Christian Kästner Carnegie Mellon University, Martin Erwig Oregon State University, Sven Apel University of Passau, Eric Bodden Fraunhofer SIT and TU Darmstadt