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Evaluating recommended applications

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Large open source software repositories are polluted with incomplete or inadequately functioning projects having scarce or poor descriptions. Developers often search these repositories to find sample applications containing implementations of relevant features. While relying on software search engines that retrieve germane applications based on direct matches between user queries and words in the descriptions (or source code files), it is difficult to warrant that retrieved applications contain functionality described by their authors in project summaries.
We propose a novel approach called K9 that helps users evaluate if recommended applications implement functionality, which is described by the authors in project summaries. Using programmers' queries describing high-level concepts (e.g., sql server, floating toolbar, or smart card), K9 uses information retrieval and program analysis techniques to evaluate recommended applications based on how they implement these high-level concepts. We conjecture that K9 will effectively support developers in evaluating functionality of the retrieved applications.

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  • (2010)Leveraging usage similarity for effective retrieval of examples in code repositoriesProceedings of the eighteenth ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering10.1145/1882291.1882316(157-166)Online publication date: 7-Nov-2010

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RSSE '08: Proceedings of the 2008 international workshop on Recommendation systems for software engineering
November 2008
62 pages
ISBN:9781605582283
DOI:10.1145/1454247
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  1. application programming interface
  2. information retrieval
  3. open source software repositories
  4. program analysis
  5. software documentation

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