Topics
The workshop is concerned with all aspects of the search experience of software developers. Search-driven development involves a broad range of activities and topics: from finding reusable software assets to finding experts within an organization; from using the mighty "grep" to using internet-scale search engines dedicated to software artifacts; from finding matching code fragments based on a simple text query to based on a given unit-test. We are looking forward to exciting and stimulating discussions about all these ideas—and much more—at the workshop!
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Applications and tools for searching software artifacts.
- Approaches to search for developer expertise.
- Crawling, analysis and parsing of internet-scale code repositories.
- Empirical studies of search and navigation in IDEs.
- Experience reports on setting up and running large software search engines.
- Information retrieval techniques to search software.
- Intergration of search engines with IDEs.
- Just in time comprehension tools for developers.
- Leveraging Web 2.0 and social computing techniques for developers' information needs.
- Machine learning approaches to search software.
- Methods of integrating indexed data from various sources and histories.
- Natural language processing to support software development.
- Novel argumentation models for searching in software message boards and email archives.
- Programming by example.
- Query languages for software search.
- Ranking strategies and heuristics for code search.
- Search techniques to assist developers in finding components and code fragments for reuse.
- Recommendation systems for software development.
- Slicing and generative techniques for code extraction and synthesis.
- Standards and benchmarks for the evaluation of search tools.
- The use of visualizations to support software search.
- Experts finding for software development.
- Understanding information needs of software developers.