Evaluating how developers use general-purpose web-search for code retrieval.
Md. Masudur RahmanJed BarsonSydney PaulJoshua KayaniFederico Andres LoisSebastian Fernandez QuezadaChristopher ParninKathryn T. StoleeBaishakhi RayPublished in: MSR (2018)
Keyphrases
- general purpose
- web search
- source code
- special purpose
- linux kernel
- search engine
- information retrieval
- web retrieval
- current web search engines
- ad hoc retrieval
- open source
- query dependent
- image retrieval
- relevance ranking
- search experience
- web search engines
- software systems
- web pages
- test collection
- information retrieval systems
- programming language
- web information retrieval
- image database
- federated search
- code snippets
- domain specific
- multimedia databases
- query logs
- retrieval systems
- end users
- application specific
- test driven development
- query formulation
- retrieval model
- document retrieval
- software development
- case study
- retrieval method
- android application
- source files
- code examples
- query expansion
- personalized search
- anchor text
- software projects
- search result
- retrieval process
- average precision
- software developers