DIETs: recommender systems for mobile API developers
Stefanie Beyer · International Conference on Software Engineering · 2015
The increasing number of posts related to mobile app development indicates unaddressed problems in the usage of mobile APIs. Arguing that these problems result from in- adequate documentation and shortcomings in the design and implementation of the APIs, the goal of this research is to develop and evaluate two developers' issues elimination tools (DIETs) for mobile API developers to diminish the problems of mobile applications (apps) development.After categorizing the problems, we investigate their causes, by exploring the relationships between the topics and trends of posts on Stack Overflow, the app developers' experience, the API and test code, and its changes. The results of these studies will be used to develop two DIETs that support API developers to improve the documentation, design, and implementation of their APIs.