Domain-driven technique for functionality identification in source code
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
Evaluating the specificity of text retrieval queries to support software engineering tasks
Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering
Automatic query performance assessment during the retrieval of software artifacts
Proceedings of the 27th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
Concept location using program dependencies and information retrieval (DepIR)
Information and Software Technology
Automatic query reformulations for text retrieval in software engineering
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering
On the relationships between domain-based coupling and code clones: an exploratory study
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering
An ontology toolkit for problem domain concept location in program comprehension
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering
Supporting concept location through identifier parsing and ontology extraction
Journal of Systems and Software
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Partial comprehension is a necessity in the evolution and maintenance of very large software systems. The programmers form not only partial comprehension of the code, but also partial comprehension of the application domain. To describe the comprehension process, we introduce ontology fragments and investigate how programmers form, use and extend them before and during concept location; concept location is a prerequisite of code changes. We conducted case studies of concept location in two large systems, Eclipse and Mozilla, that both have more than 50,000 methods. Using grep search and ontology fragments, the programmers were able to locate the concepts after inspecting on average less than 10 methods and operating with ontology fragments of around 14 concepts, a very small fraction of the total.