SimilarTech: Automatically recommend analogical libraries across different programming languages

Chunyang Chen; Zhenchang Xing

doi:10.1145/2970276.2970290

SimilarTech: Automatically recommend analogical libraries across different programming languages

Chunyang Chen, Zhenchang Xing

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Abstract

Third-party libraries are an integral part of many software projects. It often happens that developers need to find analogical libraries that can provide comparable features to the libraries they are already familiar with. Existing methods to find analogical libraries are limited by the communitycurated list of libraries, blogs, or Q & A posts, which often contain overwhelming or out-of-date information. This paper presents our tool SimilarTech (https://graphofknowledge. appspot.com/similartech) that makes it possible to automatically recommend analogical libraries by incorporating tag embeddings and domain-specific relational and categorical knowledge mined from Stack Overow. SimilarTech currently supports recommendation of 6,715 libraries across 6 different programming languages. We release our SimilarTech website for public use. The SimilarTech website attracts more than 2,400 users in the past 6 months. We observe two typical usage patterns of our website in the website visit logs which can satisfy different information needs of developers. The demo video can be seen at https://youtu.be/ubx8h4D4ieE.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ASE'16
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 31st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
Editors	David Lo, Sven Apel, Sarfraz Khurshid
Place of Publication	New York NY USA
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	834-839
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	9781450338455
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2970276.2970290
Publication status	Published - 25 Aug 2016
Externally published	Yes
Event	Automated Software Engineering Conference 2016 - Singapore Management University (SMU), Singapore, Singapore Duration: 3 Sep 2016 → 7 Sep 2016 Conference number: 31st http://www.ase2016.org/ (Conference website) https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/2970276 (Proceedings)

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Conference	Automated Software Engineering Conference 2016
Abbreviated title	ASE 2016
Country/Territory	Singapore
City	Singapore
Period	3/09/16 → 7/09/16
Internet address	http://www.ase2016.org/ (Conference website) https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/2970276 (Proceedings)

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Chen, C & Xing, Z 2016, SimilarTech: Automatically recommend analogical libraries across different programming languages. in D Lo, S Apel & S Khurshid (eds), ASE'16: Proceedings of the 31st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York NY USA, pp. 834-839, Automated Software Engineering Conference 2016, Singapore, Singapore, 3/09/16. https://doi.org/10.1145/2970276.2970290

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