* ICSE 2018 *
Sun 27 May - Sun 3 June 2018 Gothenburg, Sweden
Fri 1 Jun 2018 11:20 - 11:40 at H1 room - Code Search, Synthesis, Performance Chair(s): Shahar Maoz

Source code terms such as method names and variable types are often different from conceptual words mentioned in a search query. This vocabulary mismatch problem can make code search inefficient. In this paper, we present COde voCABUlary (COCABU), an approach to resolving the vocabulary mismatch problem when dealing with free-form code search queries. Our approach leverages common developer questions and the associated expert answers to augment user queries with the relevant, but missing, structural code entities in order to improve the performance of matching relevant code examples within large code repositories. To instantiate this approach, we build GITSEARCH, a code search engine, on top of GitHub and Stack Overflow Q&A data. We evaluate GITSEARCH in several dimensions to demonstrate that (1) its code search results are correct with respect to user-accepted answers; (2) the results are qualitatively better than those of existing Internet-scale code search engines; (3) our engine is competitive against web search engines, such as Google, in helping users solve programming tasks; and (4) GITSEARCH provides code examples that are acceptable or interesting to the community as answers for Stack Overflow questions.

Fri 1 Jun

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11:00 - 12:30
Code Search, Synthesis, PerformanceTechnical Papers / Journal first papers at H1 room
Chair(s): Shahar Maoz Tel Aviv University
11:00
20m
Research paper
Deep Code Search
Technical Papers
Xiaodong Gu The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hongyu Zhang The University of Newcastle, Sunghun Kim Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Pre-print
11:20
20m
Talk
Augmenting and Structuring User Queries to Support Efficient Free-Form Code Search
Journal first papers
Raphaël Sirres , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Dongsun Kim University of Luxembourg, David Lo Singapore Management University, Jacques Klein University of Luxembourg, SnT, Kisub Kim University of Luxembourg, SnT, Yves Le Traon University of Luxembourg
Link to publication DOI Pre-print Media Attached
11:40
20m
Talk
FaCoY – A Code-to-Code Search Engine
Technical Papers
Kisub Kim University of Luxembourg, SnT, Dongsun Kim University of Luxembourg, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Eunjong Choi Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Li Li University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Jacques Klein University of Luxembourg, SnT, Yves Le Traon University of Luxembourg
Link to publication DOI Pre-print Media Attached
12:00
20m
Talk
Generalized Data Structure SynthesisAward
Technical Papers
Calvin Loncaric University of Washington, Michael D. Ernst University of Washington, USA, Emina Torlak University of Washington
DOI Pre-print Media Attached
12:20
10m
Talk
Q&A in groups
Technical Papers