Intelligent Search Methods for Software Maintenance

Huixiang Liu and Timothy C. Lethbridge ()
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Huixiang Liu: University of Ottawa
Timothy C. Lethbridge: University of Ottawa

Information Systems Frontiers, 2002, vol. 4, issue 4, No 5, 409-423

Abstract: Abstract This paper describes a study of what we call intelligent search techniques as implemented in a software maintenance environment. The techniques studied include abbreviation concatenation and abbreviation expansion. We also describe rating algorithms used to prioritize the query results. To evaluate our approach, we present a series of experiments in which we compare our algorithms' ratings of results to ratings provided by software engineers.

Keywords: information retrieval; software maintenance; intelligent search; abbreviation expansion; software engineering tools (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1023/A:1020839810474

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