Re: Extracting NetBeans usage and interaction data

Thank you very much! The "UI Gestures Collector Infrastructure" Module 
seems to be very promising for my purposes.

Also, the possibility to view the already collected data online is great!

Thanks and best regards
Dennis



Am 20.04.2017 um 16:34 schrieb geertjan wielenga:
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> http://statistics.netbeans.org/analytics/
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> E.g.:
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> http://statistics.netbeans.org/analytics/graph/actions.jsp
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> Gj
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> 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:
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>> 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 outdated?)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?
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>> 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 :)
>>
>

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