An Information Retrieval Approach for Automatically Constructing Software Libraries
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Retrieving reusable software by sampling behavior
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
The reuse of uses in Smalltalk programming
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Specification matching of software components
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Reuse-based software engineering: techniques, organization, and controls
Reuse-based software engineering: techniques, organization, and controls
Modern Information Retrieval
Algorithm for documents ranking: idea and simulation results
SEKE '02 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Software engineering and knowledge engineering
Supporting reuse by delivering task-relevant and personalized information
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Software Engineering
A survey of software reuse libraries
Annals of Software Engineering
Agora: A Search Engine for Software Components
IEEE Internet Computing
An Empirical Study of Representation Methods for Reusable Software Components
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Reusing Software: Issues and Research Directions
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Proceedings of the 19th IEEE international conference on Automated software engineering
Using structural context to recommend source code examples
Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Software engineering
Jungloid mining: helping to navigate the API jungle
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming language design and implementation
XSnippet: mining For sample code
Proceedings of the 21st annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications
Classifying Software for Reusability
IEEE Software
Similarity search for web services
VLDB '04 Proceedings of the Thirtieth international conference on Very large data bases - Volume 30
Using the web as a reuse repository
ICSR'06 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Reuse of Off-the-Shelf Components
Proceedings of the eighteenth ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Template-Based Design in COLIBRI Studio
Information Systems
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Programmers tend to reuse existing components to reduce development cost as well as improve productivity. While retrieving components from the reuse repository, developers often need to know how the components are used in different ways in order to judge which one is more appropriate. An efficient way guiding developers to know how the components are utilized is by leveraging the example code. However, usually the examples provided in handbooks and online documents are not adequate enough. To address this problem, we propose an approach recommending typical usage examples to developers by leveraging source code acquired from the Internet. For each component developers want to utilize, our method first retrieves relevant code downloaded from the Internet as candidate examples. The candidate examples are then clustered and we choose a typical one from each cluster. Finally, the selected ones are ranked and returned to the developers. We implemented our method with a prototype system and conducted an experimental study to evaluate its effectiveness. The experimental results demonstrate that our approach can provide examples to help developers know different usages of the component and thus has the potential to assist developers in reuse.