Mining succinct and high-coverage API usage patterns from source code

IEEE International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 319-328

  Wang, Jue ^a   Dang, Yingnong ^b   Zhang, Hongyu ^a   Chen, Kai ^c   Xie, Tao ^d   Zhang, Dongmei ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

API usage; Mining software repositories; Sequence mining; Software reuse; Usage pattern

Indexed keywords

API USAGE; CLIENT CODE; MINING SOFTWARE REPOSITORIES; QUALITY METRICS; SEQUENCE MINING; SOURCE CODES; USAGE PATTERNS; USER STUDY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; MINERS;

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API);

EID: 84889004632     PISSN: 21601852     EISSN: 21601860     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MSR.2013.6624045     Document Type: Conference Paper

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