The purpose of this study is to perform a synthesis of API research. The study took stock of
literature from academic journals on APIs with their associated themes, frameworks …

Every programmer has a characteristic style, ranging from preferences about identifier
naming to preferences about object relationships and design patterns. Coding conventions …

Energy consumption of mobile applications is nowadays a hot topic, given the widespread
use of mobile devices. The high demand for features and improved user experience, given …

Backward compatibility is a major concern for any library developer. In this paper, we
evaluate how stable a set of frequently used third-party libraries is in terms of method …

Identifying repetitive code changes benefits developers, tool builders, and researchers. Tool
builders can automate the popular code changes, thus improving the productivity of …

Prior research exploited the repetitiveness of code changes to enable several tasks such as
code completion, bug-fix recommendation, library adaption, etc. These and other novel …

Developers increasingly rely on API tutorials to facilitate software development. However, it
remains a challenging task for them to discover relevant API tutorial fragments explaining …

Software frameworks provide sets of generic functionalities that can be later customized for a
specific task. When developers invoke API methods in a framework, they often encounter …

The online technical Q&A site Stack Overflow (SO) is popular among developers to support
their coding and diverse development needs. To address shortcomings in API official …

Researchers have shown that related functions can be mined from grou**s of functions
found in the version history of a system. Our first contribution is to expand this approach to a …