Specifying what to search for

Authors:
Steven P. Reiss
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science, Brown University, Providence, RI. 02912 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

In this position paper we look at the problem of letting the programmer specify what they want to search for. We discuss current approaches and their problems. We propose a semantics-based approach and describe the steps we have taken and the many open questions remaining