The weHelp reference architecture for community-driven recommender systems
Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Recommendation Systems for Software Engineering
Pragmatic reuse in web application development
Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering
Searching, selecting, and synthesizing source code
Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering
Reusing web application user-interface controls
ICWE'11 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Web engineering
Extracting client-side web application code
Proceedings of the 21st international conference on World Wide Web
Systematizing pragmatic software reuse
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
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Planning a complex software modification task imposes a high cognitive burden on developers, who must juggle navigating the software, understanding what they see with respect to their task, and deciding how their task should be performed given what they have discovered. Pragmatic reuse tasks, where source code is reused in a white-box fashion, is an example of a complex and error-prone modification task: the developer must plan out which portions of a system to reuse, extract the code, and integrate it into their own system. In this paper we present a recommendation system that automates some aspects of the planning process undertaken by developers during pragmatic reuse tasks. In a retroactive evaluation, we demonstrate that our technique was able to provide the correct recommendation 64% of the time and was incorrect 25% of the time. Our case study suggests that developer investigative behaviour is positively influenced by the use of the recommendation system.