Large APIs can be hard to learn, and this can lead to decreased programmer productivity.
But what makes APIs hard to learn? We conducted a mixed approach, multi-phased study of …

README files play an essential role in sha** a developer's first impression of a software
repository and in documenting the software project that the repository hosts. Yet, we lack a …

Reading reference documentation is an important part of programming with application
programming interfaces (APIs). Reference documentation complements the API by providing …

Online software forums provide a huge amount of valuable content. Developers and users
often ask questions and receive answers from such forums. The availability of a vast amount …

Large software frameworks and APIs can be hard to learn and use, impeding software
productivity. But what are the specific challenges that programmers actually face when using …

Eye feature location is an important step in automatic visual interpretation and human face
recognition. In this paper, a novel approach for locating eye centers in face areas under …

Framework-specific modeling languages (FSMLs) help developers build applications based
on object-oriented frameworks. FSMLs model abstractions and rules of application …

In this paper we propose a probabilistic topic model that incorporates DBpedia knowledge
into the topic model for tagging Web pages and online documents with topics discovered in …

Object oriented frameworks impose additional burdens on programmers that libraries did
not, such as requiring the programmer to understand the method callback sequence …

UML class and sequence diagrams are helpful for understanding the static structure and
dynamic behavior of a software system. Algorithms and tools have been developed to …