Code I've Seen: Behaviour of programmers while re-finding pieces of code

In this work, theories and findings about information re-finding in PIM are applied to the re-finding of programming code, in particular single snippets of code. Empirical data from studies about the behaviour of programmers indicate that searching and finding are frequently performed activities. Based on this, it is shown that parallels can be drawn between re-finding behaviour as studied in the past for various other areas and re-finding of source code: For known strategies like orienteering and teleporting there exist equivalents when navigating a code base. Finally, open questions are addressed and proposals are made how to further investigate this behaviour in future experiments.