NDLI: A Dataset for API Usage

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Sawant, A.A. Bacchelli, A.
Copyright Year	2015
Description	Author affiliation: SORCERERS @ SERG, Delft Univ. of Technol., Delft, Netherlands (Sawant, A.A.; Bacchelli, A.)
Abstract	An Application Programming Interface (API) provides a specific set of functionalities to a developer. The main aim of an API is to encourage the reuse of already existing functionality. There has been some work done into API popularity trends, API evolution and API usage. For all the aforementioned research avenues there has been a need to mine the usage of an API in order to perform any kind of analysis. Each one of the approaches that has been employed in the past involved a certain degree of inaccuracy as there was no type check that takes place. We introduce an approach that takes type information into account while mining API method invocations and annotation usages. This approach accurately makes a connection between a method invocation and the class of the API to which the method belongs to. We try collecting as many usages of an API as possible, this is achieved by targeting projects hosted on GitHub. Additionally, we look at the history of every project to collect the usage of an API from earliest version onwards. By making such a large and rich dataset public, we hope to stimulate some more research in the field of APIs with the aid of accurate API usage samples.
Starting Page	506
Ending Page	509
File Size	193578
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9780769555942
DOI	10.1109/MSR.2015.75
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2015-05-16
Publisher Place	Italy
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Java Databases Dataset GitHub Market research Libraries Software History Data mining API usage
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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