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Record W2093127601 · doi:10.1002/spe.1013

Spotting the difference

2010· article· en· W2093127601 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueSoftware Practice and Experience · 2010
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicSoftware Engineering Research
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Ottawa
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputer scienceReadabilityUsabilityInterface (matter)Space (punctuation)Human–computer interactionSoftwareUser interfaceGranularityWorld Wide WebMultimediaInformation retrievalProgramming languageOperating system

Abstract

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Abstract Source Code Management (SCM) is a valuable tool in software development projects, providing the ability to store and retrieve past versions of source files. Comparison tools offer the capability to compare different files or versions, highlighting their differences. Most such tools are built around a two‐pane interface, with files displayed side by side. Such interfaces are inefficient in the use of horizontal screen space, and ineffective since duplication makes text more difficult to read, leaving most of the comparison burden to the user. In this article we introduce an innovative metaphor for comparison interfaces. Based on a single‐pane interface, common text is displayed only once with differences intelligently combined into a single text, improving readability. To further improve usability, additional features were developed: difference classification ( additions , deletions , and modifications ); fine level of granularity; special features to display modifications ; and intelligent white space handling. A usability study conducted among 16 participants using real‐world samples demonstrated the interface adequacy: on average, participants were 60% faster in performing comparison tasks, while the quality of answers improved by almost 80% on our scale. After the experiment, the proposed interface was declared the favorite choice by all participants. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.014
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.788
Threshold uncertainty score0.994

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.014
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.014
GPT teacher head0.294
Teacher spread0.279 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it