An exploratory study of backtracking strategies used by developers

An exploratory study of backtracking strategies used by developers

Developers frequently backtrack while coding. They go back to an earlier state by removing inserted code or by restoring removed code for various reasons. However, little is known about when and how the developers backtrack, and modern IDEs do not provide much assistance for backtracking. As a first...

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