Searching for relevant software change artifacts using semantic networks

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Proceedings of the 2009 ACM symposium on Applied Computing table of contents

Honolulu, Hawaii

SESSION: Software engineering track table of contents

Pages 496-500

Year of Publication: 2009

ISBN:978-1-60558-166-8

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Mikael Lindvall	Fraunhofer Center Maryland, College Park, MD
Raimund L. Feldmann	Fraunhofer Center Maryland, College Park, MD
George Karabatis	University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), Baltimore, MD
Zhiyuan Chen	University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), Baltimore, MD
Vandana P. Janeja	University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), Baltimore, MD

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SIGAPP: ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

The discovery of software artifacts (files, documents, and datasets) relevant to a change request, can increase software reuse and reduce the cost of software development and maintenance. However, traditional search techniques often fail to provide the relevant documents because they do not consider relationships between software artifacts. We propose the creation of Semantic Networks which convey such relationships and assist in automatically discovering not only the requested artifacts based on a user query, but additional relevant ones that the user may not be aware of. Subsequently, we increase the accuracy of the returned artifacts by applying appropriate contexts. Experimental results show that this approach leads to better recall and precision compared to existing full-text search approaches.

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