Improving API documentation using API usage information

2009 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 119-126

  Stylos, Jeffrey ^a   Faulring, Andrew ^a   Yang, Zizhuang ^a   Myers, Brad A ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOCUMENTATION SYSTEMS; JAVADOC; MULTIPLE USER; PLACEHOLDERS; USAGE STATISTICS;

LINGUISTICS;

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API);

EID: 73449149016     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VLHCC.2009.5295283     Document Type: Conference Paper

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