What do developers search for in source code and why

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 33-36

  Panchenko, Oleksandr ^a   Plattner, Hasso ^a   Zeier, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

development activities; log file analysis; source code search

Indexed keywords

CHANGE HISTORY; DATA SETS; DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY; IMPACT ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE GAPS; LOG FILE; LOG-FILE ANALYSIS; MAINTENANCE SYSTEMS; REUSABLE COMPONENTS; SEARCH QUERIES; SOFTWARE ENGINEERS; SOURCE CODE SEARCHES; SOURCE CODES; STRUCTURAL PATTERN;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 79960570825     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1985429.1985438     Document Type: Conference Paper

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