Code search is a core software engineering task. Effective code search tools can help
developers substantially improve their software development efficiency and effectiveness. In …

Over the years of software development, a vast amount of source code has been
accumulated. Many code search tools were proposed to help programmers reuse previously …

Different studies show that programmers are more interested in finding definitions of
functions and their uses than variables, statements, or arbitrary code fragments [30, 29, 31] …

The suggestions made by current IDE's code completion features are based exclusively on
static type system of the programming language. As a result, often proposals are made …

This paper investigates the role of online resources in problem solving. We look specifically
at how programmers-an exemplar form of knowledge workers-opportunistically interleave …

The ready availability of online source-code examples has fundamentally changed
programming practices. However, current search tools are not designed to assist with …

The interplay of multiple objects in object-oriented programming often follows specific
protocols, for example certain orders of method calls and/or control structure constraints …

Code search is an essential task in software development. Developers often search the
internet and other code databases for necessary source code snippets to ease the …

Programmers commonly reuse existing frameworks or libraries to reduce software
development efforts. One common problem in reusing the existing frameworks or libraries is …

Component-based approaches to program synthesis assemble programs from a database
of existing components, such as methods provided by an API. In this paper, we present a …