An exploratory study of API usage examples on the web

Proceedings - Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, APSEC

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 396-405

  Wang, Lijie ^a,b   Zou, Yanzhen ^a,b   Fang, Lu ^a,b   Xie, Bing ^a,b   Yang, Fuqing ^a,b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

API; empirical study; usage examples; web search

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API); WEBSITES;

API; CURRENT SITUATION; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EXPLORATORY STUDIES; RESEARCH DIRECTIONS; USAGE EXAMPLES; WEB SEARCHES;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84874631216     PISSN: 15301362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APSEC.2012.122     Document Type: Conference Paper

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