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reCode: A Lightweight Find-and-Replace Interaction in the IDE for Transforming Code by Example

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Talkat UIST 2021 · 2021-10-10..10-14· [developer-experience]

speakers

name:Wode Ni
links:none on file
name:Joshua Sunshine
website:http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jssunshi
name:Vu Le
links:none on file
name:Sumit Gulwani
links:none on file
name:Titus Barik
bluesky:barik.bsky.social

resources

video:https://youtu.be/_GQ8E7EMMws
slides:none on file

summary

reCode is a Visual Studio Code extension that turns a simple search into a demonstrated, synthesized transformation: type a short search like bind or expect, edit one example (multi-line edits allowed), and the tool learns an AST-level synthesis to generalize the change (e.g., convert bind+method to arrow functions or merge expect/toEqual into same(a,b)). Suggestions appear as accept/reject inline diffs in the Find results; a usability study (n=12) shows tasks complete in under five minutes on average.

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chapters (4)

  1. 0:00Introduction
  2. 0:17FindandReplace
  3. 1:15Manual Transformation
  4. 5:08Conclusion

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