Moldable, context-aware searching with Spotter
Andrei Chiș, Tudor Gîrba, Juraj Kubelka, Oscar Nierstrasz, Stefan Reichhart, Aliaksei Syrel · 2016
Software systems involve many different kinds of domain-specific and interrelated software entities. A common strategy employed by developers to deal with this reality is to perform exploratory investigations by means of searching. Nevertheless, most integrated development environments (IDEs) support searching through generic and disconnected search tools. This impedes search tasks over domain-specific entities, as considerable effort is wasted by developers locating and linking data and concepts relevant to their application domains.