Portfolio: finding relevant functions and their usage

Collin McMillan, Mark Grechanik, Denys Poshyvanyk, Qing Xie, Chen Fu

PDF DOI 10.1145/1985793.1985809 dblp

Abstract

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]. Therefore, programmers require support in finding relevant functions and determining how those functions are used. Unfortunately, existing code search engines do not provide enough of this support to developers, thus reducing the effectiveness of code reuse.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{McMillan-al:ICSE11,
  author    = {Collin McMillan and
               Mark Grechanik and
               Denys Poshyvanyk and
               Qing Xie and
               Chen Fu},
  title     = {Portfolio: finding relevant functions and their usage},
  booktitle = {ICSE},
  pages     = {111--120},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year      = {2011},
}

Portfolio: finding relevant functions and their usage

Abstract

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