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ICSE
2009
IEEE-ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Improving API documentation usability with knowledge pushing
The documentation of API functions typically conveys detailed specifications for the benefit of interested readers. In some cases, however, it also contains usage directives, such...
Uri Dekel, James D. Herbsleb
FASE
2011
Springer
12 years 8 months ago
An Empirical Study on Evolution of API Documentation
With the evolution of an API library, its documentation also evolves. The evolution of API documentation is common knowledge for programmers and library developers, but not in a qu...
Lin Shi, Hao Zhong, Tao Xie, Mingshu Li
SIGSOFT
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
The implications of method placement on API learnability
To better understand what makes Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) hard to use and how to improve them, recent research has begun studying programmers' strategies and ...
Jeffrey Stylos, Brad A. Myers
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
An evaluation of using programming by demonstration and guided walkthrough techniques for authoring and utilizing documentation
Much existing documentation is informal and serves to communicate "how-to" knowledge among restricted working groups. Using current practices, such documentation is both...
Madhu Prabaker, Lawrence D. Bergman, Vittorio Cast...
DARE
2000
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13 years 6 months ago
Video card game: an augmented environment for user centred design discussions
In User Centred Design, the integration of knowledge of users work practice, preferences etc. into the design process is crucial to success. For this reason, video recording has b...
Jacob Buur, Astrid Soendergaard