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The reuse of software library and application framework is an important activity for rapid software development. However, due to rapid software changes, software libraries and application frameworks are usually not well-documented. To deal with this issue, we have developed a tool, named MACs, that provides developers with efficient and effective access to the API pattern databases for a software development project that are form by relevant source files. After an initial program statement is given, our MACs prototype can correctly predict useful relevant API code snippets. In our evaluation, we present a study investigating the usefulness of MACs in software development tasks. Our experimental evaluation shows that MACs has significant potential to assist developers, especially project newcomers, and provides a reuse method for code reuse from relevant source codes files.
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Hsu, SK., Lin, SJ. (2010). Mining Source Codes to Guide Software Development. In: Nguyen, N.T., Le, M.T., Świątek, J. (eds) Intelligent Information and Database Systems. ACIIDS 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5990. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12145-6_46
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