A systematic review of API evolution literature

M Lamothe, YG Guéhéneuc, W Shang - ACM Computing Surveys …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
… of API evolution publications are presented as empirical studies. The empirical studies we
… article can act as a reference for existing work within the scope of API evolution, as well as …

A large-scale empirical study on code-comment inconsistencies

F Wen, C Nagy, G Bavota… - 2019 IEEE/ACM 27th …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… We mine the complete change history of 1,500 Java projects … constraints and exceptions
API documentation and code. The … reference language for the infrastructure used in this study. …

[HTML][HTML] A mapping study on documentation in Continuous Software Development

T Theunissen, U van Heesch, P Avgeriou - Information and software …, 2022 - Elsevier
… We focus on both empirical and non-empirical studies. The topics of Agile, Lean and DevOps
are very practitioner-oriented, thus we expect that, at least part of literature is not empirical. …

A mixed-method empirical study of Function-as-a-Service software development in industrial practice

P Leitner, E Wittern, J Spillner, W Hummer - Journal of Systems and …, 2019 - Elsevier
… AWS, for example, offers reference functions, tutorials, and webinars, an application
repository 3 , an API reference, and a local testing framework in addition to SDKs in various …

Data-driven solutions to detect api compatibility issues in android: an empirical study

S Scalabrino, G Bavota… - 2019 IEEE/ACM 16th …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… -crafted or automatically mined from the API documentation. This latter is the … to learn how
to detect API compatibility issues by analyzing the changes in the history of Android APIs (“API

Understanding how and why developers seek and analyze API-related opinions

G Uddin, O Baysal, L Guerrouj… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… We present an empirical study to investigate the value of the … official documentation to
support the development tasks [6], [7… from our study to design API documentation resources that …

A systematic mapping study of API usability evaluation methods

I Rauf, E Troubitsyna, I Porres - Computer Science Review, 2019 - Elsevier
development is the usability of API evaluated and what are … They must study the API
documentation and, in some cases, … Also, some empirical studies have been carried out to validate …

On the co-evolution of ml pipelines and source code-empirical study of dvc projects

A Barrak, EE Eghan, B Adams - … Software Analysis, Evolution …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
empirically study the prevalence of ML pipelines in open source projects, as well as the amount
of maintenance effort involved. Previous studies … high-level empirical study of 391 GitHub …

How Android developers handle evolution-induced API compatibility issues: a large-scale study

H Xia, Y Zhang, Y Zhou, X Chen, Y Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
… first large-scale study on the current practice of handling evolution-induced API compatibility …
Since Android API evolution is well documented, it is quite easy for systematical modeling […

An empirical study of sentiments in code reviews

I El Asri, N Kerzazi, G Uddin, F Khomh… - Information and Software …, 2019 - Elsevier
… Peer code review is the practice where a developer submits a piece of code (ie, code … In
total, over the four studied projects, we analyzed the evolution of expressed sentiments of the top …