Mining subclassing directives to improve framework reuse

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Title	Mining subclassing directives to improve framework reuse
Publication Type	Conference Paper
Year of Publication	2010
Authors	Bruch, Marcel, Mezini Mira, and Monperrus Martin
Secondary Title	2010 7th IEEE Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2010)2010 7th IEEE Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2010)
Pagination	141 - 150
Publisher	IEEE
Place Published	Cape Town, South Africa
ISBN Number	978-1-4244-6802-7
Keywords	api, documentation, eclipse, frameworks, jface, source code
Abstract	To help developers in using frameworks, good documentation is crucial. However, it is a challenge to create high quality documentation especially of hotspots in white-box frameworks. This paper presents an approach to documentation of object-oriented white-box frameworks which mines from client code four different kinds of documentation items, which we call subclassing directives. A case study on the Eclipse JFace user-interface framework shows that the approach can improve the state of API documentation w.r.t. subclassing directives.
DOI	10.1109/MSR.2010.5463347

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