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Increasing number of cyber-attacks demotivate people to use Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for industrial as well as day to day work. A main reason for the increasing number of cyber-attacks is mistakes that programmers make…

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With the advent and proliferation of online developer forums as informal documentation, developers often share their opinions about the APIs they use. Thus, opinions of others often shape the developer's perception and decisions related to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Gias Uddin , Olga Baysal , Latifa Guerrouj , Foutse Khomh

Recent developments in the world of services on the Web show that both the number of available Web APIs as well as the applications built on top is constantly increasing. This trend is commonly attributed to the wide adoption of the REST…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Frederik Buelthoff , Maria Maleshkova

Software projects capture information in various kinds of artifacts, including source code, tests, and documentation. Such artifacts routinely encode information that is redundant, i.e., when a specification encoded in the source code is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Mathieu Nassif , Alexa Hernandez , Ashvitha Sridharan , Martin P. Robillard

The reuse at the component level is generally more effective than the one at the object-oriented class level. This is due to the granularity level where components expose their functionalities at an abstract level compared to the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Anas Shatnawi , Hudhaifa Shatnawi , Mohamed Aymen Saied , Zakarea Al Shara , Houari Sahraoui , Abdelhak Seriai

Based on developer needs and usage scenarios, API (Application Programming Interface) recommendation is the process of assisting developers in finding the required API among numerous candidate APIs. Previous studies mainly modeled API…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Yafeng Gu , Yiheng Shen , Xiang Chen , Shaoyu Yang , Yiling Huang , Zhixiang Cao

Designing an effective API is essential for library developers as it is the lens through which clients will judge its usability and benefits, as well as the main friction point when the library evolves. Despite its importance, defining the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Gustave Monce , Thomas Couturou , Yasmine Hamdaoui , Thomas Degueule , Jean-Rémy Falleri

The advancement of function-calling agent models requires diverse, reliable, and high-quality datasets. This paper presents APIGen, an automated data generation pipeline designed to synthesize verifiable high-quality datasets for…

With the proliferation of data across various domains, there is a critical demand for tools that enable non-experts to derive meaningful insights without deep data analysis skills. To address this need, existing automatic fact sheet…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Minh Duc Vu , Jieshan Chen , Zhenchang Xing , Qinghua Lu , Xiwei Xu , Qian Fu

Many automatic unit test generation tools that can generate unit test cases with high coverage over a program have been proposed. However, most of these tools are ineffective on deep learning (DL) frameworks due to the fact that many of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Arunkaleeshwaran Narayanan , Nima Shiri harzevili , Junjie Wang , Lin Shi , Moshi Wei , Song Wang

Object-oriented Application Programing Interfaces (APIs) support software reuse by providing pre-implemented functionalities. Due to the huge number of included classes, reusing and understanding large APIs is a complex task. Otherwise,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-06-03 Anas Shatnawi , Abdelhak Seriai , Houari Sahraoui , Zakarea Al-Shara

API integration is a cornerstone of our digital infrastructure, enabling software systems to connect and interact. However, as shown by many studies, writing or generating correct code to invoke APIs, particularly web APIs, is challenging.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Daniel Maninger , Leon Chemnitz , Amir Molzam Sharifloo , Tushar Lamba , Jannis Brugger , Mira Mezini

Context: The algorithms for generating a safe fluent API are actively studied these years. A safe fluent API is the fluent API that reports incorrect chaining of the API methods as a type error to the API users. Although such a safe…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Tomoki Nakamaru , Shigeru Chiba

As applications grow in capability, they also grow in complexity. This complexity in turn gets pushed into modules and libraries. In addition, hardware configurations become increasingly elaborate, too. These two trends make understanding,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Ronny Brendel , Bert Wesarg , Ronny Tschüter , Matthias Weber , Thomas Ilsche , Sebastian Oeste

We aim to identify the differences in Input/Output(I/O) behavior between multiple user programs through the inspection of system calls (i.e., requests made to the operating system). A typical program issues a large number of I/O requests to…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Aravind Sankaran , Ilya Zhukov , Wolfgang Frings , Paolo Bientinesi

GitHub is a popular data repository for code examples. It is being continuously used to train several AI-based tools to automatically generate code. However, the effectiveness of such tools in correctly demonstrating the usage of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Catherine Tony , Nicolás E. Díaz Ferreyra , Riccardo Scandariato

Intelligent assistants powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) can generate program and test code with high accuracy, boosting developers' and testers' productivity. However, there is a lack of studies exploring LLMs for testing Web APIs,…

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Modern programming frameworks come with large libraries, with diverse applications such as for matching regular expressions, parsing XML files and sending email. Programmers often use search engines such as Google and Bing to learn about…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-02-16 Mukund Raghothaman , Yi Wei , Youssef Hamadi

Functionality and dialogue experience are two important factors of task-oriented dialogue systems. Conventional approaches with closed schema (e.g., conversational semantic parsing) often fail as both the functionality and dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Raphael Shu , Elman Mansimov , Tamer Alkhouli , Nikolaos Pappas , Salvatore Romeo , Arshit Gupta , Saab Mansour , Yi Zhang , Dan Roth

Developers frequently use APIs to implement certain functionalities, such as parsing Excel Files, reading and writing text files line by line, etc. Developers can greatly benefit from automatic API usage sequence generation based on natural…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Mohammad Abdul Hadi , Imam Nur Bani Yusuf , Ferdian Thung , Kien Gia Luong , Jiang Lingxiao , Fatemeh H. Fard , David Lo