Abstract: The act of computer programming can take many different forms. For example, a software engineer might rewrite C++ code to speed up some process; an analyst might use a spreadsheet program to ...

In the exploratory programming practice, programmers iteratively ask questions and run experiments to understand and develop software systems. However, traditional exploratory programming workflows ...

This paper mainly describes the methods for analyzing exploratory traces along with examples. We also describe experiments applying our methods to actual programming and discuss their effectiveness on ...