Retrieving Self-Executable and Functionally Correct Code to Improve Source Code Search

• Published in: 2017 24th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC) pp. 749 - 750
• Main Authors: Satter, Abdus, Muntaqeem, M.G., Nahar, Nadia, Sakib, Kazi
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.12.2017
• Subjects: Code Retrieval; Code Search; Engines; Indexes; Libraries; Search engines; Semantics; Software; Software engineering; Software Reuse

Developers need to put lots of time and effort to reuse the code snippets retrieved by the existing code search engines. The reason is that these engines do not provide self-executable, functionally correct and easily understandable code snippets as search results. Developers manually resolve all th...