Web search behaviors for software development
Keitaro Nakasai, Masateru Tsunoda, Hideaki Hata · 2016
Software developers often use a web search engine to improve work efficiency. However, web search skill (i.e., efficiency to find an appropriate web site) is different for each developer. In this research, we try to clarify better web search behavior. To analyze web search behavior in programming, we made some questions about programming, and subjects solved the questions. The questions are based on Java language. Based on our experiment, to enhance the effectiveness of the web search, we suggest (1) do not read many search result pages without changing the key phrase, (2) read search result pages or the destination web pages linked to the search results carefully, before making new search, (3) Use new keywords which are not used before, when making a new key phrase.