eMoose: a memory aid for software developers

Jadeite is a new Javadoc-like API documentation system that takes advantage of multiple users' aggregate experience to reduce difficulties that programmers have learning new APIs. Previous studies have shown that programmers often guessed that certain ...

Developers rely on knowledge of project artifacts to avoid usage errors and on knowledge of their activities to maintain orientation and trace decisions. Unfortunately, human memory is unreliable, and existing documentation practices are costly and ...

The Javadoc paradigm for displaying API documentation to users is quite popular, with similar variants existing for many mainstream languages. However, two user interface design properties of Javadoc may reduce its utility when displaying documentation ...