Are code examples on an online Q&A forum reliable? a study of API misuse on stack overflow

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 Stack Overflow. To reduce manual assessment effort, we design ExampleCheck, an API usage mining framework that extracts p...

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Published in:	2018 IEEE/ACM 40th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) pp. 886 - 896
Main Authors:	Zhang, Tianyi, Upadhyaya, Ganesha, Reinhardt, Anastasia, Rajan, Hridesh, Kim, Miryung
Format:	Conference Proceeding
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY, USA ACM 27.05.2018
Series:	ACM Conferences
Subjects:	API usage pattern code example assessment Data mining General and reference > Cross-computing tools and techniques > Empirical studies Java Libraries online Q&A forums Software Software and its engineering > Software creation and management > Collaboration in software development Software and its engineering > Software organization and properties > Extra-functional properties > Software reliability Software reliability Syntactics API usage pattern online Q&A forum code example assessment
ISBN:	9781450356381, 1450356389
ISSN:	1558-1225
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