Six Learning Barriers in End-User Programming Systems
VLHCC '04 Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages - Human Centric Computing
Using structural context to recommend source code examples
Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Software engineering
Jungloid mining: helping to navigate the API jungle
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming language design and implementation
MAPO: mining API usages from open source repositories
Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Mining software repositories
Mica: A Web-Search Tool for Finding API Components and Examples
VLHCC '06 Proceedings of the Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing
Usability Implications of Requiring Parameters in Objects' Constructors
ICSE '07 Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Software Engineering
The Factory Pattern in API Design: A Usability Evaluation
ICSE '07 Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Software Engineering
Information Needs in Collocated Software Development Teams
ICSE '07 Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Software Engineering
Proceedings of the the 6th joint meeting of the European software engineering conference and the ACM SIGSOFT symposium on The foundations of software engineering
Parseweb: a programmer assistant for reusing open source code on the web
Proceedings of the twenty-second IEEE/ACM international conference on Automated software engineering
Code Conjurer: Pulling Reusable Software out of Thin Air
IEEE Software
Asking and Answering Questions during a Programming Change Task
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
The implications of method placement on API learnability
Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Two studies of opportunistic programming: interleaving web foraging, learning, and writing code
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Jadeite: improving API documentation using usage information
CHI '09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries
Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries
Api hyperlinking via structural overlap
Proceedings of the the 7th joint meeting of the European software engineering conference and the ACM SIGSOFT symposium on The foundations of software engineering
Searching API usage examples in code repositories with sourcerer API search
Proceedings of 2010 ICSE Workshop on Search-driven Development: Users, Infrastructure, Tools and Evaluation
Analyzing and mining a code search engine usage log
Empirical Software Engineering
Detecting API documentation errors
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM SIGPLAN international conference on Object oriented programming systems languages & applications
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The increasing size of APIs and the increase in the number of APIs available imply developers must frequently learn how to use unfamiliar APIs. To identify the types of questions developers want answered when working with unfamiliar APIs and to understand the difficulty they may encounter answering those questions, we conducted a study involving twenty programmers working on different programming tasks, using unfamiliar APIs. Based on the screen captured videos and the verbalization of the participants, we identified twenty different types of questions programmers ask when working with unfamiliar APIs, and provide new insights to the cause of the difficulties programmers encounter when answering questions about the use of APIs. The questions we have identified and the difficulties we observed can be used for evaluating tools aimed at improving API learning, and in identifying areas of the API learning process where tool support is missing, or could be improved.