CONTEXT: Open source software (OSS) is changing the way organizations develop,
acquire, use, and commercialize software. OBJECTIVE: This paper seeks to identify how …

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 …

When the Application Programming Interface (API) of a framework or library changes, its
clients must be adapted. This change propagation---known as a ripple effect---is a problem …

Massive open online courses (MOOCs), one of the latest internet revolutions have
engendered hope that constant iterative improvement and economies of scale may cure …

The increasing size of APIs and the increase in the number of APIs available imply
developers must frequently learn how to use unfamiliar APIs. To identify the types of …

Different studies show that programmers are more interested in finding definitions of
functions and their uses than variables, statements, or ordinary code fragments. Therefore …

A large amount of open source code is now available online, presenting a great potential
resource for software developers. This has motivated software engineering researchers to …

This paper presents an analysis of a year long usage log of Koders, the first commercially
available Internet-Scale code search engine (http://www. koders. com). The usage log …

Software developers search the Web for various kinds of source code for diverse reasons. In
a previous study, we found that searches varied along two dimensions: the size of the …

Modern Q&A websites, such as Stack Overflow, use social media to provide concise
answers, and offer rich technical context with quality assessment capabilities. Although …