Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• IKEDA, Shohei
• IHARA, Akinori
• KULA, Raula Gaikovina
• MATSUMOTO, Kenichi

Titel

An Empirical Study of README contents for JavaScript Packages

Ist Teil von

• IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, 2019/02/01, Vol.E102.D(2), pp.280-288

Ort / Verlag

Tokyo: The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Quelle

EZB Free E-Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Contemporary software projects often utilize a README.md to share crucial information such as installation and usage examples related to their software. Furthermore, these files serve as an important source of updated and useful documentation for developers and prospective users of the software. Nonetheless, both novice and seasoned developers are sometimes unsure of what is required for a good README file. To understand the contents of README, we investigate the contents of 43,900 JavaScript packages. Results show that these packages contain common content themes (i.e., ‘usage’, ‘install’ and ‘license’). Furthermore, we find that application-specific packages more frequently included content themes such as ‘options’, while library-based packages more frequently included other specific content themes (i.e., ‘install’ and ‘license’).