Context-Based Search, Recommendation and Browsing in Software Development

Antunes, Bruno; Furtado, Bárbara; Gomes, Paulo

doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-1887-4_4

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“…The human evaluation of the context transition mechanism was not conclusive, but the results are nevertheless encouraging, considering the fact that developers have some difficulties in understanding the concept of context transition. An early version of our context model was already applied to support the context-based search of source code in the IDE [14], showing that the use of context contribute positively to the ranking of search results. A similar version of this context model was also applied to the recommendation of relevant source code in the IDE [15].…”

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An Approach to Context Modeling in Software Development

Antunes

Cordeiro

Gomes

2013

Communications in Computer and Information Science

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Abstract. The contextual information associated to the work of a developer can be used to identify the source code artifacts that are more relevant at a specific point in time. This information is essential to reduce the effort spent by developers when searching for needed source code artifacts. We propose a context model that represents the focus of attention of the developer at each moment. This context model adapts automatically to changes in the focus of attention of the developer by detecting context transitions. We have developed a prototype that was submitted to an experiment with a group of developers. The results collected show that the use of our context model to rank, elicit and filter relevant source code elements for the developer is very promising.

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An Approach to Context Modeling in Software Development

Antunes

Cordeiro

Gomes

2013

Communications in Computer and Information Science

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“…Antunes and Gomes [3 ] and Antunes et al [5 ] defined context for software development more widely, considering the main aspects listed in the current literature. The studies considered that the context information should contain more than the data extracted from the developer's interaction with the development IDE.…”

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“…These dimensions were perceived as important when examining the related works (Section 2) and the studies proposed by Antunes and Gomes [3 ] and Petersen and Wohlin [24 ]. These dimensions encompass information that characterises the work environment of software developers.…”

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SW‐Context: a model to improve developers’ situational awareness

2020

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This study proposes SW‐Context, a model focused on defining context information for software, and storing this information in contextual history. The proposed model provides qualitative information concerning source code and design issues to support the daily activities of software developers, thereby improving their situation awareness. SW‐Context was evaluated through a case study in industry, in which 12 developers used it to support maintenance activities throughout one month. After this period, all developers filled out a qualitative questionnaire, which was formulated based on the well‐established technology acceptance model. The obtained results suggest that 67% of developers completely agree with the usefulness and ease of use of the SW‐Context. These results are encouraging and show the potential for implementing SW‐Context in broader software maintenance scenarios.

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“…The objective of the proposed tool is to bridge the gap between the IDE and the Web by automatically searching for relevant information. Another tool for context-based search in software development (CBSSD) [146] uses ontologies to represent the source code artifacts that exist in the workspace of the developer. The contextual information of the developer is used to improve the search of source code artifacts in the IDE, helping developers find relevant knowledge more efficiently.…”

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Searching in the Context of a Task: A Review of Methods and Tools

Maguitman¹

2018

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Contextual information extracted from the user task can help to better target retrieval to task-relevant content. In particular, topical context can be exploited to identify the subject of the information needs, contributing to reduce the information overload problem. A great number of methods exist to extract raw context data and contextual interaction patterns from the user task and to model this information using higher-level representations. Context can then be used as a source for automatic query generation, or as a means to refine or disambiguate user-generated queries. It can also be used to filter and rank results as well as to select domain-specific search engines with better capabilities to satisfy specific information requests. This article reviews methods that have been applied to deal with the problem of reflecting the current and long-term interests of a user in the search process. It discusses major difficulties encountered in the research area of context-based information retrieval and presents an overview of tools proposed since the mid-nineties to deal with the problem of context-based search.

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Context-Based Search, Recommendation and Browsing in Software Development

Cited by 7 publications

References 27 publications

An Approach to Context Modeling in Software Development

An Approach to Context Modeling in Software Development

SW‐Context: a model to improve developers’ situational awareness

Searching in the Context of a Task: A Review of Methods and Tools

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