Re: Extracting NetBeans usage and interaction data

http://statistics.netbeans.org/analytics/

E.g.:

http://statistics.netbeans.org/analytics/graph/actions.jsp

Gj


On 20-4-2017 14:47, Dennis Ziegenhagen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> for my PhD thesis, I plan to do some analysis on IDE usage and the 
> interactions between developers and software development tools. Among 
> others, two of the main goals are
> 1) recovering traceability links between development artifacts of 
> different tools, and
> 2) identifying “best” and “bad” usage practices in order to assist the 
> developer (e.g by giving hints or suggesting applicable functions).
>
> Of course, there are already hints and other helpful things inside 
> NetBeans, but my research is more aiming at the integration of 
> different tools. So, for me, the IDE is not the main application, but 
> one of many development-related tools, like also those for 
> requirements engineering, diagramming, UI sketching and so on.
>
> After this short introduction, here are (finally :) ) my questions:
>
> Are there possibilities to hook into NetBeans’ internal event or 
> action system in order to collect the desired data? Looking at the API 
> documentation and development FAQs, I can only find access to the 
> action pool (“Actions/” in the layer/file system) and the (maybe 
> outdated?) “ActionManager” inside the “Actions APIs”. Until now, I 
> don’t see any possibility to attach sth. like a “global 
> ActionListener” which gets called every time any action is performed. 
> Any hints for me?
>
> Additionally, does some kind of data collection already exist, which I 
> am missing? The “NetBeans Usage data tracking programm” doesn’t seem 
> to collect the detailed data which I need, but could be a starting 
> point to hook on. Is it possible to access this data tracking via an 
> API? Are there any other data collecting mechanisms or event buses 
> inside NetBeans?
>
> I would be glad if someone could provide me any help, hints or further 
> ideas on this.
>
> Many thanks in advance and best regards
> Dennis
>
> P.S. sorry for the long text, but I thought it could be helpful to 
> give an idea of what I try to achieve :)
>