NDLI: How Can I Use This Method?

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Moreno, L. Bavota, G. Di Penta, M. Oliveto, R. Marcus, A.
Copyright Year	2015
Description	Author affiliation: Free Univ. of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy (Bavota, G.) \|\| Univ. of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA (Moreno, L.; Marcus, A.) \|\| Univ. of Sannio, Benevento, Italy (Di Penta, M.) \|\| Univ. of Molise, Campobasso, Italy (Oliveto, R.)
Abstract	Code examples are small source code fragments whose purpose is to illustrate how a programming language construct, an API, or a specific function/method works. Since code examples are not always available in the software documentation, researchers have proposed techniques to automatically extract them from existing software or to mine them from developer discussions. In this paper we propose MUSE (Method USage Examples), an approach for mining and ranking actual code examples that show how to use a specific method. MUSE combines static slicing (to simplify examples) with clone detection (to group similar examples), and uses heuristics to select and rank the best examples in terms of reusability, understandability, and popularity. MUSE has been empirically evaluated using examples mined from six libraries, by performing three studies involving a total of 140 developers to: (i) evaluate the selection and ranking heuristics, (ii) provide their perception on the usefulness of the selected examples, and (iii) perform specific programming tasks using the MUSE examples. The results indicate that MUSE selects and ranks examples close to how humans do, most of the code examples (82%) are perceived as useful, and they actually help when performing programming tasks.
Starting Page	880
Ending Page	890
File Size	780102
Page Count	11
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781479919345
DOI	10.1109/ICSE.2015.98
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	Cloning Libraries Software Documentation Measurement Data mining Context Static software analysis Code examples Empirical studies Software documentation
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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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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