Title
API fluency
Abstract
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are critical to improve developer productivity: developers can reuse a significant amount of functionality instead of writing it themselves. The flip side of API popularity is that APIs are large and numerous: developers often spend significant time searching for the functionality they need. Worse, they may not even be aware that an API exists for a given task and thus waste time reinventing the wheel. We argue for API fluency: the ability for developers to internalize how an API is used. The more developers have internalized the APIs they need, the more productive they can become. We propose an approach to improve API fluency, relying on spaced repetition of recommended API elements.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/ICSE-NIER.2019.00033
Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Software Engineering: New Ideas and Emerging Results
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
APIs, MSR, spaced repetition
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Romain Robbes1143873.40
Mircea Lungu254539.17
andrea janes322425.26