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IWPC
1998
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Archetypal Source Code Searches: A Survey of Software Developers and Maintainers
In this study, we conducted a survey to generate archetypes of source code searching by programmers across maintenance tasks. Using a questionnaire on a web page, we obtained 69 r...
Susan Elliott Sim, Charles L. A. Clarke, Richard C...
WWW
2002
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Probabilistic question answering on the web
Web-based search engines such as Google and NorthernLight return documents that are relevant to a user query, not answers to user questions. We have developed an architecture that...
Dragomir R. Radev, Weiguo Fan, Hong Qi, Harris Wu,...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Reducing long queries using query quality predictors
Long queries frequently contain many extraneous terms that hinder retrieval of relevant documents. We present techniques to reduce long queries to more effective shorter ones tha...
Giridhar Kumaran, Vitor R. Carvalho
ICST
2011
IEEE
13 years 17 days ago
EFindBugs: Effective Error Ranking for FindBugs
—Static analysis tools have been widely used to detect potential defects without executing programs. It helps programmers raise the awareness about subtle correctness issues in t...
Haihao Shen, Jianhong Fang, Jianjun Zhao
ICSE
2003
IEEE-ACM
14 years 9 months ago
From HCI to Software Engineering and Back
Methods to assess and ensure system usability are becoming increasingly important as market edge becomes less dependent on function and more dependent on ease of use, and as recog...
José Creissac Campos, Michael D. Harrison