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Holistic recommender systems for software engineering

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Luca PonzanelliAuthors Info & Claims

ICSE Companion 2014: Companion Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering

Pages 686 - 689

https://doi.org/10.1145/2591062.2591081

Published: 31 May 2014 Publication History

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Software maintenance is a relevant and expensive phase of the software development process. Developers have to deal with legacy and undocumented code that hinders the comprehension of the software system at hand. Enhancing program comprehension by means of recommender systems in the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is a solution to assist developers in these tasks. The recommender systems proposed so far generally share common weaknesses: they are not proactive, they consider a single type of data-source, and in case of multiple data-source, relevant items are suggested together without considering interactions among them. We envision a future where recommender systems follow a holistic approach: They provide knowledge regarding a programming context by considering information beyond the one provided by single elements in the context of the software development. The recommender system should consider different elements such as development artifact (e.g., bug reports, mailing lists), and online resources (e.g., blogs, Q&A web sites, API documentation), developers activities, repository history etc. The provided information should be novel and emerge from the semantic links created by the analysis of the interactions among these elements.

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ICSE Companion 2014: Companion Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering

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DOI:10.1145/2591062

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