Fuzzy-based process mining to discover the coding behavior: challenges and future works

Discovering the coding behavior of programmers is an emerging application domain in the process mining field. Comprehension of how programmers head the coding of software have a strong potential to better support the coding workflow. In our previous work, we introduced and evaluated an environment, called CodingMiner, to generate event logs from IDE usage enabling the adoption of fuzzy-based process mining techniques to model the programmers’ coding process. The mined processes have shown different IDE usage patterns for programmers with different skills and performances. Our approach, currently, is not able to represent the behavior concerning the usage of programming core constructs such as, in the case of Object-Oriented paradigm, abstraction, object state and behavior. In this paper, we are interested to discuss the main research challenges and sketch possible actions to adopt for improving the realization of the proposed environment to also represent the behavior in using the core constructs.