RACK: Automatic API recommendation using crowdsourced knowledge

• Main Authors: RAHMAN, Mohammad M., ROY, Chanchal K., LO, David
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2016
• Subjects: Stack Overflow; Code search; query reformulation; keyword-API association; crowdsourced knowledge; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3725; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/4727/viewcontent/masud_SANER2016.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Traditional code search engines often do not perform well with natural language queries since they mostly apply keyword matching. These engines thus need carefully designed queries containing information about programming APIs for code search. Unfortunately, existing studies suggest that preparing a...