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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…

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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

Developers prefer to utilize third-party libraries when they implement some functionalities and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are frequently used by them. Facing an unfamiliar API, developers tend to consult tutorials as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-03-07 He Jiang , Jingxuan Zhang , Xiaochen Li , Zhilei Ren , David Lo

Despite recent research efforts, the vision of automatic code generation through API recommendation has not been realized. Accuracy and expressiveness challenges of API recommendation needs to be systematically addressed. We present a new…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Ya Xiao , Salman Ahmed , Wenjia Song , Xinyang Ge , Bimal Viswanath , Danfeng Yao

Developers often wonder how to implement a certain functionality (e.g., how to parse XML files) using APIs. Obtaining an API usage sequence based on an API-related natural language query is very helpful in this regard. Given a query,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-07-17 Xiaodong Gu , Hongyu Zhang , Dongmei Zhang , Sunghun Kim

In addition to their vital role in professional software development, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are now increasingly used by non-professional programmers, including end users, scientists and experts from other domains.…

Modern software development requires a large investment in learning application programming interfaces (APIs). Recent research found that the learning materials themselves are often inadequate: developers struggle to find answers beyond…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-02-07 Adrian Kuhn , Robert DeLine

Modern web services increasingly rely on REST APIs. Effectively testing these APIs is challenging due to the vast search space to be explored, which involves selecting API operations for sequence creation, choosing parameters for each…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Myeongsoo Kim , Saurabh Sinha , Alessandro Orso

Current search techniques are limited to standard RAG query-document applications. In this paper, we propose a novel technique to expand the code and index for predicting the required APIs, directly enabling high-quality, end-to-end code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Esakkivel Esakkiraja , Denis Akhiyarov , Aditya Shanmugham , Chitra Ganapathy

With the rise of Web 2.0 and microservices, the increasing availability of Web APIs has intensified the need for effective recommendation systems. Existing approaches are generally categorized into two methods: recommendation-type methods,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Zishuo Xu , Yuhong Gu , Dezhong Yao

Developers rely on third-party library Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) when developing software. However, libraries typically come with assumptions and API usage constraints, whose violation results in API misuse. API misuses may…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Akalanka Galappaththi , Sarah Nadi , Christoph Treude

Code completion is one of the killer features of Integrated Development Environments (IDEs), and researchers have proposed different methods to improve its accuracy. While these techniques are valuable to speed up code writing, they are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Fengcai Wen , Emad Aghajani , Csaba Nagy , Michele Lanza , Gabriele Bavota

DeepSeek-R1, known for its low training cost and exceptional reasoning capabilities, has achieved state-of-the-art performance on various benchmarks. However, detailed evaluations for DeepSeek Series models from the perspective of…

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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RESTful APIs are central in developing interoperable, modular, and maintainable software systems in enterprises today. Also, it is essential to support system evolution, service interoperability, and governance across organizational…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Edwin Sundberg , Thea Ekmark , Workneh Yilma Ayele

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

In software engineering (SE) tasks, the naming approach is so important that it attracts many scholars from all over the world to study how to improve the quality of method names. To accurately recommend method names, we employ a novel…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Weidong Wang , Dian Li , Yujian Kang

Tool-calling conversational agents querying structured databases often face two linked failures: underspecification (missing constraints needed for a precise query) andinfeasibility (a fully specified query returns anemptyset). Prior…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Mehmet Kurmaz

The development of web applications that manipulate geo-referenced information is often supported by Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), al-lowing a fast development cycle for high quality applications. APIs can be used by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-05-16 Ana Isabel Fernandes , Miguel Goulão , Armanda Rodrigues

Developers' API needs should be more pragmatic, such as seeking suggestive, explainable, and extensible APIs rather than the so-called best result. Existing API search research cannot meet these pragmatic needs because they are solely…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Qing Huang , Zishuai Li , Zhenchang Xing , Zhengkang Zuo , Xin Peng , Xiwei Xu , Qinghua Lu