@inproceedings{e558a4305c8b45499791676e95826a4a,
title = "AmAssist: In-IDE ambient search of online programming resources",
abstract = "Developers work in the IDE, but search online resources in the web browser. The separation of the working and search context often cause the ignorance of the working context during online search. Several tools have been proposed to integrate the web browser into the IDE so that developers can search and use online resources directly in the IDE. These tools enable only the shallow integration of the web browser and the IDE. Some tools allow the developer to augment search queries with program entities in the current snapshot of the code. In this paper, we present an in-IDE ambient search agent to bridge the separation of the developer's working context and search context. Our approach considers the developers' working context in the IDE as a time-series stream of programming event observed from the developer's interaction with the IDE over time. It supports the deeper integration of the working context in the entire search process from query formulation, custom search, to search results refinement and representation. We have implemented our ambient search agent and integrate it into the Eclipse IDE. We conducted a user study to evaluate our approach and the tool support. Our evaluation shows that our ambient search agent can better aid developers in searching and using online programming resources while working in the IDE.",
keywords = "Context Sensing, Context-Aware Search, Contextual Search Results Annotation",
author = "Hongwei Li and Xuejiao Zhao and Zhenchang Xing and Lingfeng Bao and Xin Peng and Dongjing Gao and Wenyun Zhao",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.; 22nd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering, SANER 2015 ; Conference date: 02-03-2015 Through 06-03-2015",
year = "2015",
month = apr,
day = "8",
doi = "10.1109/SANER.2015.7081849",
language = "English",
series = "2015 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering, SANER 2015 - Proceedings",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "390--398",
booktitle = "2015 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering, SANER 2015 - Proceedings",
address = "United States",
}