An approach to context-based recommendation in software development

Authors:
Bruno Antunes;Joel Cordeiro;Paulo Gomes
Affiliations:
CISUC, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal;CISUC, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal;CISUC, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
Venue:
Proceedings of the sixth ACM conference on Recommender systems
Year:
2012

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Abstract

A software developer programming in an object-oriented programming language deals with a source code structure that may contain hundreds of source code elements. These elements are commonly related to each other and working on a specific element may require the developer to access other related elements. We propose a recommendation approach that uses the context of the developer to retrieve and rank recommendations of relevant source code elements in the IDE. These recommendations provide a shortcut to reach the desired elements and increase the awareness of the developer in relation to elements that may be of interest in that moment. We have tested our approach with a group of developers and the results show that context has a promising role in predicting and ranking the source code elements needed by a developer at each moment.