Amit S. Ami

Work place: Institute of Information Technology, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, 1200, Bangladesh

E-mail: amit.seal@iit.du.ac.bd

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Research Interests: Computational Science and Engineering, Computational Engineering, Human-Computer Interaction, Software Engineering, Computer systems and computational processes, Computer Architecture and Organization, Computer Networks, Data Structures and Algorithms

Biography

Amit S. Ami received his B.Sc. in Information Technology (software engineering) from the Institute of Information Technology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh in year 2012. He received his M.Sc. in Software Engineering from the same university in year 2014.
His research interests include experimental software engineering, mobile application engineering and testing, and mining software repositories. He has also worked on wireless mesh networks, wireless routing protocols, cloud computing and human computer interaction. He has worked in software industries for a year, was a Microsoft Student Partner and ACM Student Member. He also worked as an organizer with Google Developer Group, Bangladesh and Mozilla Bangladesh. He joined as a lecturer at Institute of Information Technology, University of Dhaka in year 2014 and is currently working there.

Author Articles
A Content Assist based Approach for Providing Rationale of Method Change for Object Oriented Programming

By Amit S. Ami Md. Shariful Islam

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijieeb.2015.01.07, Pub. Date: 8 Jan. 2015

Software engineering requires modification of code during development and maintenance phase. During modification, a difficult task is to understand rationale of changed code. Present Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) attempt to help this by providing features integrated with different types of repositories. However, these features still consume developer’s time as he has to switch from editor to another window for this purpose. Moreover, these features focus on elements available in present version of code, thus increasing the difficulty of finding rationale of an element removed or modified earlier. Leveraging different sources for providing information through code completion menus has been shown to be valuable, even when compared to standalone counterparts offering similar functionalities in literature. Literature also shows that it is one of the most used features for consuming information within IDE. Based on that, we prepare an Eclipse plug-in and a framework that allows providing reason of code change, at method granularity, across versions through a new code completion menu in IDE. These allow a software engineer to gain insight about rationale of removed or modified methods which are otherwise not available in present version of code. Professional software engineers participated in our empirical evaluation process and we observed that more than 80% participants considered this to be a useful approach for saving time and effort to understand rationale of method change. Later, based on their feedback, the plug-in and framework is modified to incorporate chronological factors. We perform quasi experimental evaluation with professional software engineers. It is found that time required to find rationale of method change is reduced to at least half compared to usual amount of time required for all the software engineers who participated in the quantitative evaluation.

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