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ECOOP
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2009
Springer
To improve software productivity, when constructing new software systems, programmers often reuse existing libraries or frameworks by invoking methods provided in their APIs. Those...
ICSE
2009
IEEE-ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2009
IEEE-ACM
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...
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2007
ACM
A software system interacts with third-party libraries through various APIs. Using these library APIs often needs to follow certain usage patterns. Furthermore, ordering rules (sp...
ICSE
2012
IEEE-ACM
11 years 7 months ago
2012
IEEE-ACM
Abstract—Key program interfaces are sometimes documented with usage examples: concrete code snippets that characterize common use cases for a particular data type. While such doc...
FASE
2011
Springer
12 years 8 months ago
2011
Springer
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...