Identifying the concepts that are searchable with keywords in code search engines

Authors:
Toshihiro Kamiya
Affiliations:
Future University Hakodate, Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan
Venue:
JSAI-isAI'09 Proceedings of the 2009 international conference on New frontiers in artificial intelligence
Year:
2009

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Abstract

The (extended position) paper discusses the reason why keyword-based search engines may not be effective in code search, and shows an case study where which kind of concepts in source code can be effectively searched by keyword code search engines.