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 …

A fundamental problem of finding software applications that are highly relevant to
development tasks is the mismatch between the high-level intent reflected in the …

Massive open online courses (MOOCs), one of the latest internet revolutions have
engendered hope that constant iterative improvement and economies of scale may cure …

Software developers frequently issue generic natural language queries for code search
while using code search engines (eg, GitHub native search, Krugle). Such queries often do …

Many software reuse tasks involve reusing source code that was not designed in a manner
conducive to those tasks, requiring that ad hoc modifications be applied. Such pragmatic …

A large amount of open source code is now available online, presenting a great potential
resource for software developers. This has motivated software engineering researchers to …

This paper presents an analysis of a year long usage log of Koders, the first commercially
available Internet-Scale code search engine (http://www. koders. com). The usage log …

Vast quantities of open source code are now available online, presenting a great potential
resource for software developers. Yet the current generation of open source code search …

User interface design and coding can be complex and messy. We describe a system that
uses code search to simplify and automate the generation of such code. We start with a …

Given the abundance of software in open source repositories, code search engines are
increasingly turning to “big data” technologies such as natural language processing and …