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Thung, F. ; Singapore Manage. Univ., Singapore, Singapore ; Shaowei Wang ; Lo, D. ; Lawall, J.

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Developers often receive many feature requests. To implement these features, developers can
leverage various methods from third party libraries. In this work, we propose an automated approach
that takes as input a textual description of a feature request. It then recommends methods in library
APIs that developers can use to implement the feature. Our recommendation approach learns from
records of other changes made to software systems, and compares the textual description of the
requested feature with the textual descriptions of various API methods. We have evaluated our
approach on more than 500 feature requests of Axis2/Java, CXF, Hadoop Common, HBase, and Struts
2. Our experiments show that our approach is able to recommend the right methods from 10 libraries
with an average recall-rate@5 of 0.690 and recall-rate@10 of 0.779 respectively. We also show that the
state-of-the-art approach by Chan et al., that recommends API methods based on precise text phrases,
is unable to handle feature requests.

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