A study of the effectiveness of usage examples in REST API documentation

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages / Human-Centric Computing Languages and Environments

• Publication date

  2017-10-01

• Fields of study

  Computer Science

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  DOI 10.1109/VLHCC.2017.8103450
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