Discovering API Usability Problems at Scale

被引：12
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作者：
Murphy-Hill, Emerson [1 ]
Sadowski, Caitlin [2 ]
Head, Andrew [3 ]
Daughtry, John [2 ]
Macvean, Andrew [2 ]
Jaspan, Ciera [2 ]
Winter, Collin [2 ]
机构：
[1] North Carolina State Univ, Raleigh, NC 27695 USA
[2] Google, Mountain View, CA USA
[3] Univ Calif Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
来源：
2018 IEEE/ACM 2ND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON API USAGE AND EVOLUTION (WAPI) | 2018年
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D O I：
10.1145/3194793.3194795
中图分类号：
TP31 [计算机软件];
学科分类号：
081202 ; 0835 ;
摘要：
Software developers' productivity can be negatively impacted by using APIs incorrectly. In this paper, we describe an analysis technique we designed to find API usability problems by comparing successive file-level changes made by individual software developers. We applied our tool, StopMotion, to the file histories of real developers doing real tasks at Google. The results reveal several API usability challenges including simple typos, conceptual API misalignments, and conflation of similar APIs.
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页码：14 / 17
页数：4
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