Documentation Reuse: Hot or Not?
An Empirical Study

Mohamed A. Oumaziz, Alan Charpentier, Jean-Rémy Falleri, Xavier Blanc

Package

In order to replicate our experiments, we provide our tool as a package downloadable HERE.
The tool has two dependencies to install first with the two command-lines as follow :

The tool receives four parameters : To replicate each experiment, copy-paste the corresponding command-line:

Detector source code

The source code of our detector can be accessed in this page: DocReuse

Proposal

The implemented JavaDoc Doclet for our proposal can be accessed in this page: Proposal

Experiments results

For the reuse experiment, you can find all the results in this page.

While the relations' results can be found in this page.

Here are all the diagrams presenting the sizes and number of owners of the identified duplications :

Apache Commons Collection

Apache Commons Collection

Apache Commons IO

Apache Commons IO

Google Guava

Google Guava

Google Gson

Google Gson

SLF4J

SLF4J

Mockito

Mockito

Junit

Junit

Here are all the Venn diagrams depicting the frequency of the possible combinations of items in a same duplication :

Apache Commons Collection

Apache Commons IO

Google Guava

Google Gson

SLF4J

Mockito

Junit