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Recommendation Systems for Software Engineering

IEEE SoftwarePublished 11 September 2009
Martin P. Robillard, Robert J. Walker, Thomas Zimmermann
Citations382
SJR quartileQ2
SJR score0.56
SNIP1.10

TL;DR

The authors provide an overview of recommendation systems for software engineering: what they are, what they can do for developers, and what they might do in the future.

Abstract

Software development can be challenging because of the large information spaces that developers must navigate. Without assistance, developers can become bogged down and spend a disproportionate amount of their time seeking information at the expense of other value-producing tasks. Recommendation systems for software engineering (RSSEs) are software tools that can assist developers with a wide range of activities, from reusing code to writing effective bug reports. The authors provide an overview of recommendation systems for software engineering: what they are, what they can do for developers, and what they might do in the future.

Keywords

Computer Science