The TaskNav application is no longer available due to the absence of the resources required to maintain it. For more information on this project please see below:

Journal Article

This article is the official report on the main technical contributions of the TaskNav project. Please refer to this article to cite the TaskNav project.

C. Treude, M. P. Robillard, and B. Dagenais. Extracting Development Tasks to Navigate Software Documentation. In IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 41(6):565-581, June 2015. (pdf) (doi link)

Blog

This blog by C. Treude provides an informal overview of the project.

Task Extraction Tool

The main contribution of TaskNav, the task extraction algorithm, is now available as a separate web application.

Video

This YouTube video shows TaskNav in action.

Demo Paper

This paper provides a summary of the formal demonstration of TaskNav presented at the 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering.

C. Treude, M. Sicard, M. Klocke, and M. P. Robillard. TaskNav: Task-based Navigation of Software Documentation. Research Demonstration. In Proceedings of the 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, pages 649-652, May 2015. (pdf) (doi link)

Screen Shot

The image below is a view of the TaskNav application in action.

Quick Start Guide

The following information was provided as a "quick start" guide for users of TaskNav.

Project Selection

Before entering your search item, select the projects you would like included in your search. Select by technology (e.g. Java), domain (e.g. Oracle) and subject (e.g. Concurrency). Multiple subjects, domains and technologies may be selected at once.

Autocomplete

While you are entering your search terms, the autocomplete system will suggest tasks and code elements that match your search.

Search Results

Once you have entered your search terms, TaskNav will show a list of search results that contain the tasks or code elements that match your search terms. In addition, TaskNav presents fulltext search results. After selecting a link, TaskNav automatically scrolls the corresponding page to the right place and highlights relevant information.