Recent software advances have led to an expansion of the development and usage of
application programming interfaces (APIs). From millions of Android packages (APKs) …

Developers often need to search for appropriate APIs for their programming tasks. Although
most libraries have API reference documentation, it is not easy to find appropriate APIs due …

Software development can be challenging because of the large information spaces that
developers must navigate. Without assistance, developers can become bogged down and …

Learning and remembering how to use APIs is difficult. While code-completion tools can
recommend API methods, browsing a long list of API method names and their …

A documentation generator is a programming tool that creates documentation for software
by analyzing the statements and comments in the software's source code. While many of …

In theory,(good) documentation is an invaluable asset to any software project, as it helps
stakeholders to use, understand, maintain, and evolve a system. In practice, however …

Source code summarization is the task of creating readable summaries that describe the
functionality of software. Source code summarization is a critical component of …

Abstract An Application Programming Interface (API) provides a programmatic interface to a
software component that is often offered publicly and may be used by programmers who are …

Modern software development extensively involves reusing library components accessed
through their Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Usability is therefore a fundamental …

Programming assistants have reshaped the experience of programming into one where
programmers spend less time writing and more time critically examining code. In this paper …