Prevalence of low-context editing scenarios in real-world development

Determine the relative frequency with which developers encounter editing scenarios where the cursor window contains little relevant code, in order to validate the baseline assumption used to test static contextualization methods.

Background

The evaluation emphasizes scenarios where little relevant code appears near the cursor, making static retrieval particularly valuable. However, real-world editing contexts vary widely and often include substantial local information.

The authors call out the need to validate how often the low-context scenario actually occurs in practice, which would inform when and where static-context techniques deliver the most benefit.