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In the domain of large-scale software development, the demands for dynamic and multifaceted static code analysis exceed the capabilities of traditional tools. To bridge this gap, we present CodeFuse-Query, a system that redefines static…

Dedicated software search engines that index open source software repositories or in-house software assets significantly enhance the chance of finding software components suitable for reuse. However, they still leave the work of evaluating…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-03-25 Werner Janjic , Dietmar Stoll , Philipp Bostan , Colin Atkinson

Code retrieval is allowing software engineers to search codes through a natural language query, which relies on both natural language processing and software engineering techniques. There have been several attempts on code retrieval from…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Mehdi Bahrami , N. C. Shrikanth , Yuji Mizobuchi , Lei Liu , Masahiro Fukuyori , Wei-Peng Chen , Kazuki Munakata

This paper presents Megadiff, a dataset of source code diffs. It focuses on Java, with strict inclusion criteria based on commit message and diff size. Megadiff contains 663 029 Java diffs that can be used for research on commit…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Martin Monperrus , Matias Martinez , He Ye , Fernanda Madeiral , Thomas Durieux , Zhongxing Yu

In this paper, we present "FabSearch", a prototype search engine for sourcing manufacturer service providers, by making use of the product manufacturing information contained within a 3D digital file of a product. FabSearch is designed to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Atin Angrish , Benjamin Craver , Binil Starly

Search is an integral part of a software development process. Developers often use search engines to look for information during development, including reusable code snippets, API understanding, and reference examples. Developers tend to…

In source code search, a common information-seeking strategy involves providing a short initial query with a broad meaning, and then iteratively refining the query using terms gleaned from the results of subsequent searches. This strategy…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Zachary Eberhart , Collin McMillan

Identifying trendline visualizations with desired patterns is a common and fundamental data exploration task. Existing visual analytics tools offer limited flexibility and expressiveness for such tasks, especially when the pattern of…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Tarique Siddiqui , Zesheng Wang , Paul Luh , Karrie Karahalios , Aditya Parameswaran

Tens of thousands of engineers use Sourcegraph day-to-day to search for code and rely on it to make progress on software development tasks. We face a key challenge in designing a query language that accommodates the needs of a broad…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Rijnard van Tonder

Developers spend a significant amount of time searching their local codebase. To help them search efficiently, researchers have proposed novel tools that apply state-of-the-art information retrieval algorithms to retrieve relevant code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-01-28 Xi Ge , David Shepherd , Kostadin Damevski , Emerson Murphy-Hill

Competitive programming benchmarks are widely used in scenarios such as programming contests and large language model assessments. However, the growing presence of duplicate or highly similar problems raises concerns not only about…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Han Deng , Yuan Meng , Shixiang Tang , Wanli Ouyang , Xinzhu Ma

The way developers edit day-to-day code tends to be repetitive, often using existing code elements. Many researchers have tried to automate repetitive code changes by learning from specific change templates which are applied to limited…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Saikat Chakraborty , Yangruibo Ding , Miltiadis Allamanis , Baishakhi Ray

As code search permeates most activities in software development,code-to-code search has emerged to support using code as a query and retrieving similar code in the search results. Applications include duplicate code detection for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-18 George Mathew , Kathryn T. Stolee

In collaborative software development, program merging is the mechanism to integrate changes from multiple programmers. Merge algorithms in modern version control systems report a conflict when changes interfere textually. Merge conflicts…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Elizabeth Dinella , Todd Mytkowicz , Alexey Svyatkovskiy , Christian Bird , Mayur Naik , Shuvendu K. Lahiri

During software maintenance, developers usually deal with a significant number of software change requests. As a part of this, they often formulate an initial query from the request texts, and then attempt to map the concepts discussed in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Mohammad Masudur Rahman , Chanchal K. Roy

As a popular Q&A site for programming, Stack Overflow is a treasure for developers. However, the amount of questions and answers on Stack Overflow make it difficult for developers to efficiently locate the information they are looking for.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Kaibo Cao , Chunyang Chen , Sebastian Baltes , Christoph Treude , Xiang Chen

Code search is to search reusable code snippets from source code corpus based on natural languages queries. Deep learning-based methods of code search have shown promising results. However, previous methods focus on retrieval accuracy but…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Wenchao Gu , Yanlin Wang , Lun Du , Hongyu Zhang , Shi Han , Dongmei Zhang , Michael R. Lyu

Decoding from the output distributions of large language models to produce high-quality text is a complex challenge in language modeling. Various approaches, such as beam search, sampling with temperature, $k-$sampling, nucleus…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Esteban Garces Arias , Julian Rodemann , Meimingwei Li , Christian Heumann , Matthias Aßenmacher

Many software projects implement APIs and algorithms in multiple programming languages. Maintaining such projects is tiresome, as developers have to ensure that any change (e.g., a bug fix or a new feature) is being propagated, timely and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Jiyang Zhang , Pengyu Nie , Junyi Jessy Li , Milos Gligoric

There has been an increase of interest in code search using natural language. Assessing the performance of such code search models can be difficult without a readily available evaluation suite. In this paper, we present an evaluation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Hongyu Li , Seohyun Kim , Satish Chandra