Evaluating How Developers Use General-Purpose Web-Search for Code Retrieval

1 code implementation • 22 Mar 2018 • Rahman Md Masudur, Barson Jed, Paul Sydney, Kayan Joshua, Lois Federico Andres, Quezada Sebastian Fernandez, Parnin Christopher, Stolee Kathryn T., Ray Baishakhi

Analyzing this dataset, we observe that code related searching often requires more effort (e. g., time, result clicks, and query modifications) than general non-code search, which indicates code search performance with a general search engine is less effective.

Code Search Retrieval