Data mining library reuse patterns using generalized association rules
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Software engineering
Integrating active information delivery and reuse repository systems
SIGSOFT '00/FSE-8 Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering: twenty-first century applications
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
MAPO: mining API usages from open source repositories
Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Mining software repositories
Approximate Structural Context Matching: An Approach to Recommend Relevant Examples
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Parseweb: a programmer assistant for reusing open source code on the web
Proceedings of the twenty-second IEEE/ACM international conference on Automated software engineering
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In this paper we examine the search behaviours of developers using the Strathcona source code example recommendation system over the period of three years. In particular, we investigate the number of query facts software engineers included in their queries as they searched for source code examples. We found that in practice developers predominantly searched with multiple search facts and tended to constrain their queries by iteratively adding more facts as needed. Our experience with this data suggest that example search tools should both support searching with multiple facts as well and facilitate the construction of multi-fact queries.