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 …

Context APIs play a central role in software development. The seminal research of Carroll et
al.[15] on minimal manual and subsequent studies by Shull et al.[79] showed that …

Automatically recommending API-related tutorial fragments or Q&A pairs from Stack
Overflow (SO) is very helpful for developers, especially when they need to use unfamiliar …

When encountering unfamiliar APIs, developers tend to seek help from API tutorials and
Stack Overflow (SO). API tutorials help developers understand the API knowledge in a …

As one key resource to learn Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), a lot of API
reference documentation lacks code samples with usage scenarios, thus heavily hindering …

Programmers often consult an online Q&A forum such as Stack Overflow to learn new APIs.
This paper presents an empirical study on the prevalence and severity of API misuse on …

Developers often use learning resources such as API tutorials and Stack Overflow (SO) to
learn how to use an unfamiliar API. An API tutorial can be divided into a number of …

Application programming interface (API)-related questions are increasingly posted and
discussed by developers in popular question and answer forums, such as Stack Overflow …

With the proliferation of online developer forums as informal documentation, developers
share their opinions about the APIs they use. While many developers refer to and rely on …

With the advent and proliferation of online developer forums as informal documentation,
developers often share their opinions about the APIs they use. Thus, opinions of others often …