Towards an eye-tracking enabled IDE for software traceability tasks

The paper presents iTrace, an eye-tracking plug-in for the Eclipse IDE. The premise is to use developers' eye gaze as input to traceability tasks such as generating links between various artifacts. The design, architecture, and current state of iTrace is described. Support for a variety of traceability tasks such as link retrieval, link evolution, link visualization, and empirical studies are also discussed. An initial link generation heuristic using iTrace is presented with plans for future evaluation.

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