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  1. Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Search-Driven Development: Users, Infrastructure, Tools, and Evaluation (SUITE '11)
  2. What do developers search for in source code and why
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What do developers search for in source code and why

Content Provider ACM Digital Library
Author Panchenko, Oleksandr Zeier, Alexander Plattner, Hasso
Abstract Source code search is an important tool used by software engineers. However, until now relatively little is known about what developers search for in source code and why. This paper addresses this knowledge gap. We present the results of a log file analysis of a source code search engine. The data from the log file was analyzed together with the change history of four development and maintenance systems. The results show that most of the search targets were not changed after being downloaded, thus we concluded that the developers conducted searches to find reusable components, to obtain coding examples or to perform impact analysis. In contrast, maintainers often change the code they have downloaded. Moreover, we automatically categorized the search queries. The most popular categories were: method name, structural pattern, and keyword. The major search target was a statement. Although the selected data set was small, the deviations between the systems were negligible, therefore we conclude that our results are valid.
Starting Page 33
Ending Page 36
Page Count 4
File Format PDF
ISBN 9781450305976
DOI 10.1145/1985429.1985438
Language English
Publisher Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date 2011-05-28
Publisher Place New York
Access Restriction Subscribed
Subject Keyword Log file analysis Source code search Development activities
Content Type Text
Resource Type Article
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