Extracting examples for API usage patterns

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Hudson Silva Borges
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; UFMG
• Palavras-chave em Português: Padrões de uso; Regras de associação; Compreensão de programas; API; Slicing de programas; Engenharia de sofware; Software Reutilização; Computação
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/ESBF-9HXNRG

Recent empirical studies show that the lack of usage examples is a major obstacle for using modern APIs. This master dissertation presents an extension of the APIMiner platform--called APIMiner 2.0--that supports the instrumentation of traditional API documents with source code examples on methods that are frequently called together. The provided examples are summarized using a slicing algorithm that considers several strategies recently proposed in the literature to increase readability. An instance of the APIMiner 2.0 platform was implemented for the Android API. Furthermore, the dissertation presents an in-depth analysis on the use of the Android API by hundreds of client systems, a field study involving the use of APIMiner 2.0 by professional developers, and a controlled study with 29 subjects.