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, M, Mezini, M, Monperrus, M
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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