Chapter. What Kinds of Programming Problems Can Be Solved by Searching for Code?

Description

This chapter will report on field observations of web code searches that were conducted by developers as part of their daily work.

Authors

Rosalva Gallardo-Valencia, University of California, Irvine

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Rosalva Gallardo-Valencia is a PhD Candidate at the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at University of California, Irvine under the supervision of Professor Susan Sim. Rosalva conducts empirical studies on software engineering, specifically on source code search on the Web and Agile methodologies. She has six years of experience developing applications for telecommunication and financial organizations.