Integrating S6 code search and Code Bubbles

We wanted to provide a tool for doing code search over open source repositories as part of the Code Bubbles integrated development environment. Integrating code search as a plug-in to Code Bubbles required substantial changes to the S⁶ code search engine and the development of appropriate user interfaces in Code Bubbles. After briefly reviewing Code Bubbles and the S⁶ search engine, this paper describes the integration strategy, the front end for code search, the modifications to the code search engine to handle context-based search, and the user interface for handling the results of the search.