The immense amounts of source code provide ample challenges and opportunities during
software development. To handle the size of code bases, developers commonly search for …

Code search is a core software engineering task. Effective code search tools can help
developers substantially improve their software development efficiency and effectiveness. In …

Software developers write a lot of source code and documentation during software
development. Intrinsically, developers often recall parts of source code or code summaries …

With the advent of large code repositories and sophisticated search capabilities, code
search is increasingly becoming a key software development activity. In this work we shed …

Developers often require knowledge beyond the one they possess, which often boils down
to consulting sources of information like Application Programming Interfaces (API) …

Developers commonly make use of a web search engine such as Google to locate online
resources to improve their productivity. A better understanding of what developers search for …

Programmers frequently search for source code to reuse using keyword searches. The
search effectiveness in facilitating reuse, however, depends on the programmer's ability to …

Using computational notebooks (eg, Jupyter Notebook), data scientists rationalize their
exploratory data analysis (EDA) based on their prior experience and external knowledge …

Code search methods, especially those that allow programmers to raise queries in a natural
language, plays an important role in software development. It helps to improve …

Code search is an essential task in software development. Developers often search the
internet and other code databases for necessary source code snippets to ease the …