Recommending proper API code examples for documentation purpose

Proceedings - Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, APSEC

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 331-338

  Mar, Lee Wei ^a   Wu, Ye Chi ^a   Jiau, Hewijin Christine ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

API usage; Code example; Documentation; Framework

Indexed keywords

API USAGE; CODE EXAMPLE; CODE SEARCH ENGINE; FRAMEWORK; PROPER CODE;

CODES (SYMBOLS); SEARCH ENGINES; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SYSTEM PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION;

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API);

EID: 84863020208     PISSN: 15301362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APSEC.2011.18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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