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Evaluating How Developers Use General-Purpose Web-Search for Code Retrieval
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2018
arXiv
pre-print
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 prefer general-purpose search engines like Google, which are often not optimized for code related documents and use search strategies and ranking techniques that are more optimized for generic, non-code related information. In this paper, we explore whether a
arXiv:1803.08612v1
fatcat:f4rshpfx4fflnmgimku62r667a