Lowering the barrier to reuse through test-driven search

Authors:
Werner Janjic;Dietmar Stoll;Philipp Bostan;Colin Atkinson
Affiliations:
Chair for Software Engineering, University of Mannheim, Germany;Chair for Software Engineering, University of Mannheim, Germany;Chair for Software Engineering, University of Mannheim, Germany;Chair for Software Engineering, University of Mannheim, Germany
Venue:
SUITE '09 Proceedings of the 2009 ICSE Workshop on Search-Driven Development-Users, Infrastructure, Tools and Evaluation
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Dedicated software search engines that index open source software repositories or in-house software assets significantly enhance the chance of finding software components suitable for reuse. However, they still leave the work of evaluating and testing components to the developer. To significantly change the risk/cost/benefit tradeoff involved in software reuse, search engines need to be supported by user friendly environments that deliver code search functionality, non-intrusively, right to developers' fingertips during key software development activities and significantly raise the quality of search results. In this position paper we describe our attempt to realize this vision through an Eclipse plug-in, Code Conjurer, in tandem with the code search engine, merobase.