How to Build a Recommendation System for Software Engineering

Software developers must interact with large amounts of different types of information and perform many different activities to build a software system. To ease the finding of information and hone workflows, there has been growing interest in building recommenders that are intended to help software developers work more effectively. Building an effective recommender requires a deep understanding of the problem that is the target of a recommender, analysis of different aspects of the approach taken to perform the recommendations and design and evaluation of the mechanisms used to present recommendations to a developer. In this chapter, we outline the different steps that must be taken to develop an effective recommender system to aid software development