Discovering API Usability Problems at Scale

2018 IEEE/ACM 2nd International Workshop on API Usage and Evolution (WAPI) Pub Date : 2018-06-02 DOI:10.1145/3194793.3194795

E. Murphy-Hill, Caitlin Sadowski, Andrew Head, John M. Daughtry, A. Macvean, Ciera Jaspan, C. Winter

引用次数: 17

Abstract

Software developers' productivity can be negatively impacted by using APIs incorrectly. In this paper, we describe an analysis technique we designed to find API usability problems by comparing successive file-level changes made by individual software developers. We applied our tool, StopMotion, to the file histories of real developers doing real tasks at Google. The results reveal several API usability challenges including simple typos, conceptual API misalignments, and conflation of similar APIs.

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大规模发现API可用性问题

不正确地使用api会对软件开发人员的生产力产生负面影响。在本文中，我们描述了我们设计的一种分析技术，通过比较单个软件开发人员所做的连续文件级更改来发现API可用性问题。我们将我们的工具StopMotion应用于在Google执行实际任务的真正开发人员的文件历史。结果揭示了几个API可用性方面的挑战，包括简单的拼写错误、概念上的API不一致以及类似API的合并。

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2018 IEEE/ACM 2nd International Workshop on API Usage and Evolution (WAPI)

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