Searching a Database of Source Codes Using Contextualized Code Search

Understand

Consider the case where a programmer has written some part of a program, but has left part of the program (such as a method or a function body) incomplete.

• The goal is to use the context surrounding the missing code to automatically 'figure out' which of the codes in the database would be useful to the programmer in order to help complete the missing code.
• The search is 'contextualized' in the sense that the search engine should use clues in the partially-completed code to figure out which database code is most useful.
• The user should not be required to formulate an explicit query.