The immense amounts of source code provide ample challenges and opportunities during
software development. To handle the size of code bases, developers commonly search for …

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

A new, quantitative architecture simulation approach to software design that circumvents
costly testing cycles by modeling quality of service in early design states. Too often, software …

As code search is a frequent developer activity in software development practices, improving
the performance of code search is a critical task. In the text retrieval based search …

With the rapid increase of public code repositories, developers maintain a great desire to
retrieve precise code snippets by using natural language. Despite existing deep learning …

Recent studies have shown that high-quality code semantics learning can effectively
improve the performance of code clone detection. However, existing approaches suffer from …

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 …

When implementing unfamiliar programming tasks, developers commonly search code
examples and learn usage patterns of APIs from the code examples or reuse them by copy …

Software engineers often resort to code search practices to support software maintenance
and evolution tasks, in particular code reuse. An issue that affects code search is the …

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 …