Finding Relevant Applications for Prototyping
MSR '07 Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories
Programming by a sample: rapidly creating web applications with d.mix
Proceedings of the 20th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Mapping the Space of API Design Decisions
VLHCC '07 Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing
More natural end-user software engineering
Proceedings of the 4th international workshop on End-user software engineering
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
The implications of method placement on API learnability
Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Evaluating recommended applications
Proceedings of the 2008 international workshop on Recommendation systems for software engineering
Two studies of opportunistic programming: interleaving web foraging, learning, and writing code
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Jadeite: improving API documentation using usage information
CHI '09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Conversations in developer communities: a preliminary analysis of the yahoo! pipes community
Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Communities and technologies
Codetrail: Connecting source code and web resources
Journal of Visual Languages and Computing
Example-centric programming: integrating web search into the development environment
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Apatite: a new interface for exploring APIs
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
No Code Required: Giving Users Tools to Transform the Web
No Code Required: Giving Users Tools to Transform the Web
A search engine for finding highly relevant applications
Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 1
Searching API usage examples in code repositories with sourcerer API search
Proceedings of 2010 ICSE Workshop on Search-driven Development: Users, Infrastructure, Tools and Evaluation
Exemplar: EXEcutable exaMPLes ARchive
Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 2
Leveraging usage similarity for effective retrieval of examples in code repositories
Proceedings of the eighteenth ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
The state of the art in end-user software engineering
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Toward transforming freely available source code into usable learning materials for end-users
Evaluation and Usability of Programming Languages and Tools
HyperSource: bridging the gap between source and code-related web sites
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Large-scale, AST-based API-usage analysis of open-source Java projects
Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Measuring API documentation on the web
Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Web 2.0 for Software Engineering
Fishtail: from task context to source code examples
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Developing Tools as Plug-ins
What kinds of development problems can be solved by searching the web?: a field study
Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Search-Driven Development: Users, Infrastructure, Tools, and Evaluation
Portfolio: finding relevant functions and their usage
Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering
Portfolio: a search engine for finding functions and their usages
Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering
Searching, selecting, and synthesizing source code
Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering
Finding relevant functions in millions of lines of code
Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering
Flow-augmented call graph: a new foundation for taming API complexity
FASE'11/ETAPS'11 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Fundamental approaches to software engineering: part of the joint European conferences on theory and practice of software
Using social media to study the diversity of example usage among professional developers
Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGSOFT symposium and the 13th European conference on Foundations of software engineering
Using intelligent tutors to enhance student learning of application programming interfaces
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges
Proceedings of the 24th annual ACM symposium adjunct on User interface software and technology
Proceedings of the 10th SIGPLAN symposium on New ideas, new paradigms, and reflections on programming and software
APIExample: An effective web search based usage example recommendation system for java APIs
ASE '11 Proceedings of the 2011 26th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
Codelets: linking interactive documentation and example code in the editor
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Asking and answering questions about unfamiliar APIs: an exploratory study
Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering
Detecting similar software applications
Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering
Recommending source code for use in rapid software prototypes
Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering
SnipMatch: using source code context to enhance snippet retrieval and parameterization
Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
A Study of Help Requested Online by Spreadsheet Users
Journal of Organizational and End User Computing
Understanding multilayered applications for building extensions
Proceedings of the 1st workshop on Comprehension of complex systems
Reverb: recommending code-related web pages
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering
Proceedings of the 2013 9th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering
Portfolio: Searching for relevant functions and their usages in millions of lines of code
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) - Testing, debugging, and error handling, formal methods, lifecycle concerns, evolution and maintenance
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Because software libraries are numerous and large, learning how to use them is a common and problematic task for experienced programmers and novices alike. Internet search engines such as Google have emerged as important resources to help programmers successfully use APIs. However, observations of programmers using web search have revealed problems and inefficiencies in their use. We present a new prototype search tool called Mica that augments standard web search results to help programmers find the right API classes and methods given a description of the desired functionality, and help programmers find examples when they already know which methods to use. Mica works by using the Google Web APIs to find relevant pages, and then analyzing the content of those pages to extract the most relevant programming terms and to classify the type of each result.