How API Documentation Fails

Formal documentation can be a crucial resource for learning to how to use an API. However, producing high-quality documentation can be nontrivial. Researchers investigated how 10 common documentation problems manifested themselves in practice. The results are based on two surveys of a total of 323 p...

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Published in:	IEEE software Vol. 32; no. 4; pp. 68 - 75
Main Authors:	Uddin, Gias, Robillard, Martin P.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Los Alamitos IEEE 01.07.2015 IEEE Computer Society
Subjects:	API Application programming interface Application programming interfaces Documentation Failure analysis Software development software engineering Studies Uniform resource locators user study
ISSN:	0740-7459, 1937-4194
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