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To introduce formal quality metrics for mined API patterns and develop an automated tool that extracts succinct, high-coverage usage patterns from client source code.

May 1, 2013Open Access

Mining succinct and high-coverage API usage patterns from source code

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JWJue WangCommercial Aircraft Corporation of China (China)YDYingnong DangMicrosoft (United States)HZHongyu ZhangLiaoning University

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Empirical evaluation reveals that UP-Miner extracts concise, high-coverage API patterns from large codebases, highlighting improved practicality over existing mining tools.

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To introduce formal quality metrics for mined API patterns and develop an automated tool that extracts succinct, high-coverage usage patterns from client source code.
Formulated two formal quality metrics—succinctness and coverage—to evaluate the redundancy and completeness of mined API usage patterns.
Developed Usage Pattern Miner (UP-Miner) to identify and condense frequent API method interactions.
Evaluated the tool against the existing MAPO approach on a large-scale Microsoft codebase and conducted user studies with Microsoft developers.
UP-Miner outperformed MAPO by extracting more succinct and higher-coverage API usage patterns while significantly reducing pattern redundancy.
User studies with Microsoft developers confirmed the practical utility and adoption viability of the mined patterns in real-world development workflows.

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Wang et al. (2013) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69de9e4657c7c8340a558e16 https://doi.org/10.1109/msr.2013.6624045

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Empirical evaluation reveals that UP-Miner extracts concise, high-coverage API patterns from large codebases, highlighting improved practicality over existing mining tools.

Mining succinct and high-coverage API usage patterns from source code

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