What do developers search for on the web?

• Main Authors: XIA, Xin, BAO, Lingfeng, LO, David, KOCHHAR, Pavneet Singh, HASSAN, Ahmed E., XING, Zhenchang
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• Subjects: Search task; Understanding; Empirical study; Survey; Programming Languages and Compilers; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3798; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/4800/viewcontent/101007_2Fs10664_017_9514_4.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Developers commonly make use of a web search engine such as Google to locate online resources to improve their productivity. A better understanding of what developers search for could help us understand their behaviors and the problems that they meet during the software development process. Unfortun...