Improving software quality via code searching and mining

Authors:
Madhuri R. Marri;Suresh Thummalapenta;Tao Xie
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, USA;Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, USA;Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, USA
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

Enormous amount of open source code is available on the Internet and various code search engines (CSE) are available to serve as a means for searching in open source code. However, usage of CSEs is often limited to simple tasks such as searching for relevant code examples. In this paper, we present a generic life-cycle model that can be used to improve software quality by exploiting CSEs. We present three example software development tasks that can be assisted by our life-cycle model and show how these three tasks can contribute to improve the software quality. We also show the application of our life-cycle model with a preliminary evaluation.