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Generating and maintaining API documentation with integrity and consistency can be time-consuming and expensive for evolving APIs. To solve this problem, several approaches have been proposed to automatically generate high-quality API…

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Programming language documentation refers to the set of technical documents that provide application developers with a description of the high-level concepts of a language. Such documentation is essential to support application developers…

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Various software features such as classes, methods, requirements, and tests often have similar functionality. This can lead to emergence of duplicates in their descriptive documentation. Uncontrolled duplicates created via copy/paste hinder…

Software Documentation plays a major role in the usage and development of a project. Widespread adoption of open source software projects contributes to larger and faster development of the projects, making it difficult to maintain the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Akhila Sri Manasa Venigalla , Sridhar Chimalakonda

Code example is a crucial part of good documentation. It helps the developers to understand the documentation easily and use the corresponding code unit (e.g., method) properly. However, many official documentation still lacks (good) code…

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We present Executable Abstract Programs and analyse their role for software development and documentation. The intuitive understanding of these programs fits the computational mindset of software system engineers and is supported by a…

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Software development is a complex activity which depends on diverse technologies and people's expertise. The approaches to developing software highly depend on these different characteristics, which are the context developers are subject…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Glaucia Melo , Paulo Alencar , Don Cowan

Product description generation is a challenging and under-explored task. Most such work takes a set of product attributes as inputs then generates a description from scratch in a single pass. However, this widespread paradigm might be…

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Documentation debt hinders the effective utilization of open-source software. Although code summarization tools have been helpful for developers, most would prefer a detailed account of each parameter in a function rather than a high-level…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Vatsal Venkatkrishna , Durga Shree Nagabushanam , Emmanuel Iko-Ojo Simon , Melina Vidoni

Agile approaches tend to focus solely on scoping and simplicity rather than on problem solving and discovery. This hampers the development of innovative solutions. Additionally, little has been said about how to capture and represent the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Ainhoa Aldave , Juan M. Vara , David Granada , Esperanza Marcos

Context: Agile development methodologies in the software industry have increased significantly over the past decade. Although one of the main aspects of agile software development (ASD) is less documentation, there have always been…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Md Athikul Islam , Rizbanul Hasan , Nasir U. Eisty

A good documentation is essential for a good usability of (security) APIs, i.e. especially for the correct use of the APIs. Requirements for good documentation of APIs have been described in several papers, but there is no technical…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Rolf Huesmann , Alexander Zeier , Andreas Heinemann , Alexander Wiesmaier

Personas are crucial in software development processes, particularly in agile settings. However, no effective tools are available for generating personas from user feedback in agile software development processes. To fill this gap, we…

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Documenting frameworks provides its users and maintainers useful information on that software's architecture, design, and customization. Despite documentation's importance, the process of creating and maintaining it is considered to imply…

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In reaction to growing concerns about the potential harms of artificial intelligence (AI), societies have begun to demand more transparency about how AI models and systems are created and used. To address these concerns, several efforts…

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App store mining has proven to be a promising technique for requirements elicitation as companies can gain valuable knowledge to maintain and evolve existing apps. However, despite first advancements in using mining techniques for…

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Mobile applications have become a popular software development domain in recent years due in part to a large user base, capable hardware, and accessible platforms. However, mobile developers also face unique challenges, including pressure…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Kevin Moran , Cody Watson , John Hoskins , George Purnell , Denys Poshyvanyk

This paper aims at integrating heterogeneous documents used in pragmatic software develpoment methods to describe views with a formal refinement based software development process. Therefore we propose an integrated semantics of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-10-16 Barbara Paech , Bernhard Rumpe

Continuous evolution in modern software often causes documentation, tutorials, and examples to be out of sync with changing interfaces and frameworks. Relying on outdated documentation and examples can lead programs to fail or be less…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Roshanak Zilouchian Moghaddam , Spandan Garg , Colin B. Clement , Yevhen Mohylevskyy , Neel Sundaresan

Explainability is crucial for complex systems like pervasive smart environments, as they collect and analyze data from various sensors, follow multiple rules, and control different devices resulting in behavior that is not trivial and,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Mersedeh Sadeghi , Lars Herbold , Max Unterbusch , Andreas Vogelsang