Chapter. A Controlled Experiment on the Process Used by Developers During Internet-Scale Code Search

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Over the last decade, we have conducted studies, including interviews, surveys, and lab experiments on how programmers search for source code on the web. In this chapter, we synthesize results from these studies to describe the process of code search on the web.

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Susan Elliott Sim, University of California, Irvine

Medha Umarji

Megha Agarwal

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Susan Elliott Sim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Informatics at University of California, Irvine. Her primary research area is empirical software engineering, with particular attention to program comprehension, source code searching on the web, research methodology, and software process for small companies.

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