APISynth: a new graph-based API recommender system

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Chen Lv, Wei Jiang, Yue Liu, Songlin Hu

Published: 2014, Last Modified: 15 Jan 2026ICSE Companion 2014EveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY-SA 4.0
Abstract: Current API recommendation tools yield either good recall ratio or good precision, but not both. A tool named APISynth is proposed in this paper by utilizing a new graph based approach. Preliminary evaluation demonstrates that APISynth wins over the state of the art with respect to both the two criteria.