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How API Documentation Fails by Uddin, Gias, Robillard, Martin P.

“…Formal documentation can be a crucial resource for learning to how to use an API. However, producing high-quality documentation can be nontrivial. Researchers…”
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Identifying Concepts in Software Projects by Nassif, Mathieu, Robillard, Martin P.

“…When working on a project, software developers must be familiar with computing concepts, standards, and technologies related to the project. We present a novel…”
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Recommendation Systems for Software Engineering by Robillard, Martin, Walker, Robert, Zimmermann, Thomas

“…Software development can be challenging because of the large information spaces that developers must navigate. Without assistance, developers can become bogged…”
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Contextual Documentation Referencing on Stack Overflow by Baltes, Sebastian, Treude, Christoph, Robillard, Martin P.

“…Software engineering is knowledge-intensive and requires software developers to continually search for knowledge, often on community question answering…”
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A field study of API learning obstacles by Robillard, Martin P., DeLine, Robert

“…Large APIs can be hard to learn, and this can lead to decreased programmer productivity. But what makes APIs hard to learn? We conducted a mixed approach,…”
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Patterns of Knowledge in API Reference Documentation by Maalej, W., Robillard, M. P.

“…Reading reference documentation is an important part of programming with application programming interfaces (APIs). Reference documentation complements the API…”
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Automatically Categorizing Software Technologies by Nassif, Mathieu, Treude, Christoph, Robillard, Martin P.

“…Informal language and the absence of a standard taxonomy for software technologies make it difficult to reliably analyze technology trends on discussion forums…”
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Generating Unit Tests for Documentation by Nassif, Mathieu, Hernandez, Alexa, Sridharan, Ashvitha, Robillard, Martin P.

“…Software projects capture redundant information in various kinds of artifacts, as specifications from the source code are also tested and documented. Such…”
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What Makes APIs Hard to Learn? Answers from Developers by Robillard, M.P.

“…The paper discusses the application program interface (API). Most software projects reuse components exposed through APIs. In fact, current-day software…”
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Lessons Learned While Migrating From Swing to JavaFX by Robillard, Martin P., Kutschera, Kaylee

“…We describe a case study of the migration of an interactive diagramming tool written in Java from the Swing graphical user interface framework to JavaFX. The…”
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Wikifying software artifacts by Nassif, Mathieu, Robillard, Martin P.

“…Context The computational linguistics community has developed tools, called wikifiers, to identify links to Wikipedia articles from free-form text. Software…”
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A study of documentation for software architecture by Ernst, Neil A., Robillard, Martin P.

“…Documentation is an important mechanism for disseminating software architecture knowledge. Software project teams can employ vastly different formats for…”
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A Data-Centric Study of Software Tutorial Design by Arya, Deeksha M., Nassif, Mathieu, Robillard, Martin P.

“…We investigate three tutorials on Android development to elicit design choices related to their organization and content. We describe decision points and…”
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Properties and Styles of Software Technology Tutorials by Arya, Deeksha M., Guo, Jin L.C., Robillard, Martin P.

“…A large number of tutorials for popular software development technologies are available online, and those about the same technology vary widely in their…”
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Automated API Property Inference Techniques by Robillard, M. P., Bodden, E., Kawrykow, D., Mezini, M., Ratchford, T.

“…Frameworks and libraries offer reusable and customizable functionality through Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Correctly using large and…”
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How programmers find online learning resources by Arya, Deeksha M., Guo, Jin L. C., Robillard, Martin P.

“…When learning a new technology, programmers often have to sift through multiple online resources to find information that addresses their questions. Prior work…”
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Recommending reference API documentation by Robillard, Martin P., Chhetri, Yam B.

“…Reference documentation is an important source of information on API usage. However, information useful to programmers can be buried in irrelevant text, or…”
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Using Traceability Links to Recommend Adaptive Changes for Documentation Evolution by Dagenais, Barthelemy, Robillard, Martin P.

“…Developer documentation helps developers learn frameworks and libraries, yet developing and maintaining accurate documentation requires considerable effort and…”
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Enforcing Exception Handling Policies with a Domain-Specific Language by Adachi Barbosa, Eiji, Garcia, Alessandro, Robillard, Martin P., Jakobus, Benjamin

“…Current software projects deal with exceptions in implementation and maintenance phases without a clear definition of exception handling policies. We call an…”
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Recommending adaptive changes for framework evolution by Dagenais, B., Robillard, M.

“…In the course of a framework's evolution, changes ranging from a simple refactoring to a complete rearchitecture can break client programs. Finding suitable…”
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