Information Retrieval (IR) based tools complement traditional static and dynamic analysis
tools by exploiting the natural language found within a program's text. Tools incorporating IR …

Maintaining modern software requires significant tool support. Effective tools exploit a variety
of information and techniques to aid a software maintainer. One area of recent interest in tool …

Design patterns are well-known design solutions that are reported to produce substantial
benefits with respect to software quality. However, to our knowledge there are no scientific …

Recent solutions to software engineering problems have incorporated tools and techniques
from information retrieval (IR). The use of IR requires choosing an appropriate retrieval …

Software development, evolution, and maintenance depend on ever increasing tool support.
Recent tools have incorporated increasing analysis of the natural language found in source …

Abstract Information retrieval (IR) extracts and organizes natural-language information found
in unstructured text. Many of the challenges faced by software engineers can be addressed …

Tool support is crucial to modern software development, evolution, and maintenance. Early
tools reused the static analysis performed by the compiler. These were followed by dynamic …

One of the most significant tasks of component-based software development is concerned
with finding suitable components for integration. This paper introduces a novel development …

Purpose: This study was carried out to determine the level of precision, recall, and searching
time for “Nama” and “Namayeh” databases, as well as to find out which of the indexing tools …

In this paper, the authors introduce the novel concept of intent-based code search that
categorizes code search goals into a hierarchy. They will explore state-of-the-art techniques …