Recommending a starting point for a programming task: an initial investigation
C. Albert Thompson, Gail C. Murphy · 2014
When starting a new task, a software developer must typically find one or more starting points amongst many resources (e.g., source code and other files) forming the software system. In this paper, we consider how we might recommend one resource as an initial starting point, saving the developer the effort of having to search or use other means to find the point. Using data from the open source Eclipse Mylyn project, we investigate whether resources considered and changed for other tasks may be used to recommend a starting point for a current task.