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Automatic API method recommendation is an essential task of code intelligence, which aims to suggest suitable APIs for programming queries. Existing approaches can be categorized into two primary groups: retrieval-based and learning-based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Yujia Chen , Cuiyun Gao , Muyijie Zhu , Qing Liao , Yong Wang , Guoai Xu

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), which encapsulate the implementation of specific functions as interfaces, greatly improve the efficiency of modern software development. As numbers of APIs spring up nowadays, developers can hardly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Yun Peng , Shuqing Li , Wenwei Gu , Yichen Li , Wenxuan Wang , Cuiyun Gao , Michael Lyu

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are designed to help developers build software more effectively. Recommending the right APIs for specific tasks has gained increasing attention among researchers and developers in recent years. To…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Moshi Wei , Nima Shiri Harzevili , Alvine Boaye Belle , Junjie Wang , Lin Shi , Jinqiu Yang , Song Wang , Ming Zhen , Jiang

When designing a new API for a large project, developers need to make smart design choices so that their code base can grow sustainably. To ensure that new API components are well designed, developers can learn from existing API components.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Sae Young Moon , Gregor Kerr , Fran Silavong , Sean Moran

Application programming interfaces (APIs) offer a plethora of functionalities for developers to reuse without reinventing the wheel. Identifying the appropriate APIs given a project requirement is critical for the success of a project, as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Ferdian Thung , Richard J. Oentaryo , David Lo , Yuan Tian

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

Enterprise API design is often bottlenecked by the tension between rapid feature delivery and the rigorous maintenance of usability standards. We present an industrial case study evaluating an AI-assisted design workflow trained on API…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Mak Ahmad , Andrew Macvean , JJ Geewax , David Karger

Code comments can help in program comprehension and are considered as important artifacts to help developers in software maintenance. However, the comments are mostly missing or are outdated, specially in complex software projects. As a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Ramin Shahbazi , Rishab Sharma , Fatemeh H. Fard

Developers often need to use appropriate APIs to program efficiently, but it is usually a difficult task to identify the exact one they need from a vast of candidates. To ease the burden, a multitude of API recommendation approaches have…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Yu Zhou , Xinying Yang , Taolue Chen , Zhiqiu Huang , Xiaoxing Ma , Harald Gall

Learning and remembering to use APIs are difficult. Several techniques have been proposed to assist developers in using APIs. Most existing techniques focus on recommending the right API methods to call, but very few techniques focus on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Son Nguyen , Cuong Tran Manh , Kien T. Tran , Tan M. Nguyen , Thu-Trang Nguyen , Kien-Tuan Ngo , Hieu Dinh Vo

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,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-09 André Pereira , Bruno Lima , João Pascoal Faria

API suggestion is a critical task in modern software development, assisting programmers by predicting and recommending third-party APIs based on the current context. Recent advancements in large code models (LCMs) have shown promise in the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Chaozheng Wang , Shuzheng Gao , Cuiyun Gao , Wenxuan Wang , Chun Yong Chong , Shan Gao , Michael R. Lyu

Software developers use Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) of libraries and frameworks extensively while writing programs. In this context, the recommendations provided in code completion pop-ups help developers choose the desired…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-09-01 Andrea Renika D'Souza , Di Yang , Cristina V. Lopes

Code comments are significantly helpful in comprehending software programs and also aid developers to save a great deal of time in software maintenance. Code comment generation aims to automatically predict comments in natural language…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Ramin Shahbazi , Fatemeh Fard

Modern software systems rely heavily on Web APIs, yet creating meaningful and executable test scripts remains a largely manual, time-consuming, and error-prone task. In this paper, we present APITestGenie, a novel tool that leverages Large…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-03 André Pereira , Bruno Lima , João Pascoal Faria

While having options could be liberating, too many options could lead to the sub-optimal solution being chosen. This is not an exception in the software engineering domain. Nowadays, API has become imperative in making software developers'…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Ivana Clairine Irsan , Ting Zhang , Ferdian Thung , Kisub Kim , David Lo

Digital tool-based agents, powered by Large Language Models (LLMs), that invoke external Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) often rely on documentation to understand API functionality. However, such documentation is frequently…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Bhrij Patel , Ashish Jagmohan , Aditya Vempaty

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…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Shujun Wang , Yongqiang Tian , Dengcheng He

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved exceptional performance in code generation. However, the performance remains unsatisfactory in generating library-oriented code, especially for the libraries not present in the training data of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Zexiong Ma , Shengnan An , Bing Xie , Zeqi Lin

OpenAPI indicates a behavior where producers offer Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to help end-users access their data, resources, and services. Generally, API has many parameters that need to be entered. However, it is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Shujun Wang , Yongqiang Tian , Dengcheng He
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