JIRiSS - an Eclipse plug-in for Source Code Exploration

Author

Poshyvanyk, Denys ; Marcus, Andrian ; Dong, Yubo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Wayne State Univ., Detroit, MI

fYear

0

fDate

0-0 0

Firstpage

252

Lastpage

255

Abstract

JIRiSS (information retrieval based software search for Java) is a software exploration tool that uses an indexing engine based on an information retrieval method. JIRiSS is implemented as a plug-in for Eclipse and it allows the user to search Java source code for the implementation of concepts formulated as natural language queries. The results of the query are presented as a ranked list of software methods or classes, ordered by the similarity to the user query. In addition to that, JIRiSS includes other advanced features like automatically generated software vocabulary, advanced query formulation options including spell-checking as well as fragment-based search

Keywords

Java; information retrieval; program testing; software tools; Eclipse; JIRiSS; Java; fragment-based search; information retrieval method; natural language queries; query formulation; software exploration tool; software search; software vocabulary; source code exploration; Computer science; Documentation; Indexing; Information retrieval; Java; Natural languages; Search engines; Software systems; Software tools; Vocabulary;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Program Comprehension, 2006. ICPC 2006. 14th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Athens

ISSN

1092-8138

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2601-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICPC.2006.32

Filename

1631130