1. Supporting Programmers in Naming Identifiers Surafel Lemma Abebe and Paolo Tonella Software Engineering Research Unit Fondazione Bruno Kessler Trento, Italy TAinSM 2012

2. Motivation 2 V1.0V2.0V3.0V4.0V? What name shall I give to this identifier?

3. Identifier Name Suggestion 3 Ontology Term list Candidate sentence Sentence selection Concept and relation extraction Prefix Ontological relation Synonyms Example: server Example: file Example: message {content, subject matter, substance} Candidate name suggestion Completion Replacement

4. Identifier Name Suggestion… Prioritizing candidates – Relevance to a context (X) – Example: X= {mail, sender} 4

5. GUI Requirements and Evaluation Reenacting possible activity of developers – Success rate: probability of getting correct suggestions – Average rank: average rank of top concept in a successful suggestion 5

6. Thank you! 6