Two-step microtasks for functions with empty function bodies (e.g., function stubs):
- Step 1 ask the user to determine the relevance of a web resource for an unimplemented function.
- Step 2 of Exploratory Microtasks allow the user to add a brief note to add  context to resources they find useful for a function’s implementation 


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1. Mercury is composed of two primary sub-systems: 1) a MeteorJS web application that manages all web requests, serves the front-end mobile experience, and handles information synchronization between web clients and a Mongo NoSQL database; and 2) a VSCode plugin that converts the VSCode workspace into a web client that shares workspace state with the server.
2. Mercury introduces two, novel selfsourcing microtasks: exploratory microtasks and grounded microtasks


Mercury Design (Mercury: Empowering Programmers’ Mobile Work Practices with Microproductivity)

Williams, A., Kaur, H., Iqbal, S., White, R., Teevan, J., Fourney, A., (2019) Mercury: Empowering Programmers’ Mobile Work Practices with Microproductivity. University of Waterloo, University of Michigan, Microsoft Research. UIST '19, October 20–23, 2019, New Orleans, LA, USA. DOI: 10.1145/3332165.3347932

Mercury: Empowering Programmers’ Mobile Work Practices with Microproductivity

Exploratory Microtask (Mercury: Empowering Programmers’ Mobile Work Practices with Microproductivity)

Two-step microtasks that are generated for functions with content:
- Step 1 of Grounded Microtasks ask the user to assess the behavior of a function with a particular set of function parameters. 
- Step 2 of Grounded Microtasks allow the user to add a brief note to add context to a set of function parameters that cause the function to fail. 


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