This paper discusses the development of task-specific information retrieval systems for
software engineers. We discuss how software engineers interact with information and …

The development of defect tests is still a very labour intensive process that demands a high-
level of domain knowledge, concentration and problem awareness from software engineers …

The applicability of software reuse approaches in practice has long suffered from a lack of
reusable material, but this situation has changed virtually over night: the rise of the open …

Effective software reuse has long been regarded as an important foundation for a more
engineering-like approach to software development. Proactive recommendation systems …

Traditional industrial practice often involves the ad hoc reuse of source code that was not
designed for that reuse. Such pragmatic reuse tasks play an important role in disciplined …

Although the idea of component-based software reuse has been around for more than four
decades the technology for retrieving reusable software artefacts has grown out of its infancy …

The open source movement had a tremendous impact on software engineering in recent
years. It not only established serious competition for many commercial software vendors, it …

Mastery of the subtleties of object-oriented programming lan-guages is undoubtedly
challenging to achieve. Design patterns have been proposed some decades ago in order to …

The first generation of software retrieval systems developed some 25 years ago used simple
bibliographic indexing techniques adapted from library science to support the retrieval of …

Even though there exists a number of search solutions targetted at software engineers the
literature suggests that they are not widely used by the people engaged in code delivery …