Improving software quality via code searching and mining

Enormous amount of open source code is available on the Internet and various code search engines (CSE) are available to serve as a means for searching in open source code. However, usage of CSEs is often limited to simple tasks such as searching for relevant code examples. In this paper, we present...

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Main Authors: Marri, Madhuri R., Thummalapenta, Suresh, Xie, Tao
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Application software
Automatic programming
Computer science
Information systems > Information systems applications > Data mining
Internet
Large-scale systems
Open source software
Pattern analysis
Programming profession
Search engines
Social and professional topics > Professional topics > Management of computing and information systems > System management > Quality assurance
Software and its engineering > Software notations and tools
Software quality
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Summary:Enormous amount of open source code is available on the Internet and various code search engines (CSE) are available to serve as a means for searching in open source code. However, usage of CSEs is often limited to simple tasks such as searching for relevant code examples. In this paper, we present a generic life-cycle model that can be used to improve software quality by exploiting CSEs. We present three example software development tasks that can be assisted by our life-cycle model and show how these three tasks can contribute to improve the software quality. We also show the application of our life-cycle model with a preliminary evaluation.
DOI:10.1109/SUITE.2009.5070018