Searching a Database of Source Codes Using Contextualized Code Search
Rohan Mukherjee,
Swarat Chaudhuri,
Chris Jermaine
Abstract:We assume a database containing a large set of program source codes and consider the problem of contextualized code search over that database. A programmer has written some part of a program, but has left part of the program (such as a method or a function body) incomplete. The goal is to use the context surrounding the missing code to automatically "figure out" which of the codes in the database would be useful to the programmer in order to help complete the missing code, in the sense that the programmer coul… Show more
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