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copied!<p>Missing in Eclipse are:</p> <p>Software visualization, as for example System Complexity View <a href="http://www.inf.usi.ch/faculty/lanza/Downloads/Lanz03d.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">[Lanza 2003]</a></p> <p>And also by Lanza, the Class Blueprint <a href="http://www.inf.usi.ch/faculty/lanza/Downloads/Duca05b.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">[Ducasse 2005]</a></p> <blockquote> <p><strong>Post Scriptum:</strong> Software visualization in Eclipse: X-Ray provides System Complexity View of Java projects, <a href="http://xray.inf.usi.ch/xray.php" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://xray.inf.usi.ch/xray.php</a> (via <a href="http://twitter.com/anjaguzzi/status/6115235170" rel="nofollow noreferrer">@anjaguzzi</a> and <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/154306/paul-lammertsma">Paul Lammertsma</a>)</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://xray.inf.usi.ch/img/xraySystemComplexityView.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Software Visualization http://xray.inf.usi.ch/img/xraySystemComplexityView.png</a></p> </blockquote> </blockquote> <p>And then collaborative filtering "other developers that edited this method before also edited" <a href="http://thomas-zimmermann.com/publications/files/zimmermann-icse-2004.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">[Zimmermann 2005]</a></p> <p>And the collection of browsable examples, and autocompletion at the level of these examples. That is, for example if your write</p> <pre><code>ByteBuffer buf = file. </code></pre> <p>and hit autocompletion it should search the codebase and the interwebs for examples that convert files to bytebuffers and insert that 10-20 lines there.</p> <ul> <li>Parseweb supports developers by recommending method invocation sequences that yield a required destination data type from given input parameter types. <a href="http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1453101.1453129" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1453101.1453129</a></li> <li>Prospector supports developers by recommending method invocation sequences that yield a required destination data type from given input parameter types.<a href="http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1064978.1065018" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1064978.1065018</a></li> <li>Strathcona provides source code examples and structural con- text for the code fragment under development. <a href="http://lsmr.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/papers/holmes-icse-2005.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://lsmr.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/papers/holmes-icse-2005.pdf</a></li> <li>Rascal recommends how and when to call the methods of objects from common libraries such as Java Swing, based on an analysis of existing classes. It uses collaborative filtering. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10462-005-9012-8" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10462-005-9012-8</a></li> </ul> <p>And of course also the feature that I can write a Unit test and then the IDE searches the interwebs for classes that pass the test. Yes, this can be done!</p> <ul> <li>CodeGenie is an Eclipse plugin that allows you to write unit tests and then uses the Sourcerer source code search engine to find passing classes. <a href="http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1529282.1529384" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1529282.1529384</a></li> <li>CodeConjurer which is based on Merobase also offers that feature, see <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MS.2008.110" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MS.2008.110</a></li> </ul> <p>This list could go on and on, good starting points for more work are the proceedings of past</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://msr.uwaterloo.ca/msr2010/index.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)</a></li> <li><a href="http://scg.unibe.ch/wiki/events/suite2010" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Workshop on Search-driven Software Engineering (SUITE)</a></li> <li><a href="http://sites.google.com/site/rsseresearch/rsse2010" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Workshop on Recommendation Systems for Software Engineering (RSSE)</a></li> </ul> <p>which are all under the umbrella of the ICSE conference.</p>

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