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What should developers be aware of? An empirical study on the directives of API documentation

Monperrus, Martin ; Eichberg, Michael ; Tekes, Elif ; Mezini, Mira (2012)
What should developers be aware of? An empirical study on the directives of API documentation.
In: Empirical Software Engineering
doi: 10.1007/s10664-011-9186-4
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Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract)

Application Programming Interfaces (API) are exposed to developers in order to reuse software libraries. API directives are natural-language statements in API documentation that make developers aware of constraints and guidelines related to the usage of an API. This paper presents the design and the results of an empirical study on the directives of API documentation of object-oriented libraries. Its main contribution is to propose and extensively discuss a taxonomy of 23 kinds of API directives.

Typ des Eintrags: Artikel
Erschienen: 2012
Autor(en): Monperrus, Martin ; Eichberg, Michael ; Tekes, Elif ; Mezini, Mira
Art des Eintrags: Bibliographie
Titel: What should developers be aware of? An empirical study on the directives of API documentation
Sprache: Englisch
Publikationsjahr: 1 Februar 2012
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Titel der Zeitschrift, Zeitung oder Schriftenreihe: Empirical Software Engineering
DOI: 10.1007/s10664-011-9186-4
Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract):

Application Programming Interfaces (API) are exposed to developers in order to reuse software libraries. API directives are natural-language statements in API documentation that make developers aware of constraints and guidelines related to the usage of an API. This paper presents the design and the results of an empirical study on the directives of API documentation of object-oriented libraries. Its main contribution is to propose and extensively discuss a taxonomy of 23 kinds of API directives.

Fachbereich(e)/-gebiet(e): 20 Fachbereich Informatik > Softwaretechnik
20 Fachbereich Informatik
Hinterlegungsdatum: 15 Feb 2012 14:14
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