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Towards generating templates of method body based on method name and related identifiers

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Katsuro InoueAuthors Info & Claims

AOAsia '13: Proceedings of the 8th international workshop on Advanced modularization techniques

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2451469.2451474

Published: 25 March 2013 Publication History

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In modern software development, developers have to select and combine appropriate APIs from software libraries to implement any features. This paper proposes an approach that takes as input a method name which a developer is attempting to create, and suggests APIs that are likely used as a template of method body. By using the template as a reference and/or editing the template, the developer can write the method body. Our approach generates templates from association rules that associate APIs with identifiers such as method names, class names, and field types/names included in a large set of source files.

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Towards generating templates of method body based on method name and related identifiers
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. Development frameworks and environments

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AOAsia '13: Proceedings of the 8th international workshop on Advanced modularization techniques

March 2013

32 pages

ISBN:9781450318617

DOI:10.1145/2451469

Program Chair:
Takashi Ishio
Osaka University, Japan

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Published: 25 March 2013

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