MACs: Mining API code snippets for code reuse

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 7291-7301

  Hsu, Sheng Kuei ^a   Lin, Shi Jen ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

API usage pattern; Code reuse; Mining software repositories

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE METHODS; ASSOCIATION PATTERNS; CODE REUSE; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; MINING SOFTWARE REPOSITORIES; OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAM; PROGRAM STATEMENTS; SEQUENTIAL PATTERNS; SEQUENTIAL RULE; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SOURCE CODES; USAGE PATTERNS;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY;

EID: 79951576512     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2010.12.021     Document Type: Article

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