What can programmer questions tell us about frameworks?

Daqing Hou*, Kenny Wong, H. James Hoover

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In order to make frameworks easier to use we need to better understand the difficulties that programmers have with them. The questions that programmers ask give clues to the quality of design, documentation, and programmer practice. We describe the method and results of a study on the Java Swing framework. We collected and analyzed a sample of 300 newsgroup questions asked about two Swing components (JButton and JTree), and classified the questions according to the design features of the components. This process revealed key insights that can improve a framework's design, its tutorials, and programmer practice.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 13th International Workshop on Program Comprehension, IWPC 2005
EditorsJ.R. Cordy, H. Gall, J.I. Maletic
Pages87-96
Number of pages10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2005
Externally publishedYes
Event13th International Workshop on Program Comprehension, IWPC 2005 - St. Louis, MO, United States
Duration: 15 May 200516 May 2005

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE Workshop on Program Comprehension
ISSN (Print)1092-8138

Conference

Conference13th International Workshop on Program Comprehension, IWPC 2005
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySt. Louis, MO
Period15/05/0516/05/05

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