| an empirical study on evolution of api documentation | |
| Shi Lin; Zhong Hao; Xie Tao; Li Mingshu | |
| 2011 | |
| 会议名称 | 14th International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, FASE 2011, Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2011 |
| 会议录名称 | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) |
| 页码 | 416-431 |
| 会议日期 | March 26, |
| 会议地点 | Saarbrucken, Germany |
| 出版地 | Germany |
| ISSN | 3029743 |
| ISBN | 9783642198106 |
| 部门归属 | (1) Laboratory for Internet Software Technologies, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China; (2) Key Laboratory for Computer Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China; (3) Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, United States |
| 摘要 | 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 quantitative form. Without such quantitative knowledge, programmers may neglect important revisions of API documentation, and library developers may not effectively improve API documentation based on its revision histories. There is a strong need to conduct a quantitative study on API documentation evolution. However, as API documentation is large in size and revisions can be complicated, it is quite challenging to conduct such a study. In this paper, we present an analysis methodology to analyze the evolution of API documentation. Based on the methodology, we conduct a quantitative study on API documentation evolution of five widely used real-world libraries. The results reveal various valuable findings, and these findings allow programmers and library developers to better understand API documentation evolution. © 2011 Springer-Verlag. |
| 关键词 | Software Engineering |
| 主办者 | DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; AbsInt Angewandte Informatik GmbH; Microsoft Research; Robert Bosch GmbH; IDS Scheer AG / Software AG |
| 内容类型 | 会议论文 |
| URI标识 | http://ir.iscas.ac.cn/handle/311060/14363 |
| 专题 | 互联网软件技术实验室 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Shi Lin,Zhong Hao,Xie Tao,et al. an empirical study on evolution of api documentation[C]. Germany,2011:416-431. |
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