Characterizing Top Ranked Code Examples in Google

This page contains the material for the paper Characterizing Top Ranked Code Examples in Google (Journal of Systems and Software).

Code example webpages

• You can navigate on the code examples here.
• You can also download all code examples directly here.

Results

• Download our results here.
• This file contains the following columns for the 1,000 code examples: api_fullname, api_lib_id, lib_name, query, query_rank, didactic, loc, tokens, tokens_density, comments, comments_ratio, readability, reusability, api_count, api_ratio, cosine_sim, soft_cosine_sim.

Adopted readability tool

• Simone Scalabrino, Mario Linares-Vásquez, Denys Poshyvanyk, Rocco Oliveto. A Comprehensive Model for Code Readability. Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, 30(6), 1958, 2018.
• You can download the readability tool in the authors' online appendix.