An API Field Design Method Based on Pre-trained Model

Application programming interface (API) plays an important role in modern software development, a well designed API can provide tremendous convenience for developers. However, designing an excellent API is not a trivial task, each field in the API should avoid any ambiguity. Besides, in some special cases, for instance, a Chinese developer might not accurately translate the meaning of a Chinese API field into its English counterpart. Therefore, there exists a tremendous requirement in designing high quality API field. In this paper, a fine-tuning pre-trained model based method is proposed for API field design task. Firstly, we consider the design of API fields as a translation task, converting the fields from another language into English. Secondly, we fine-tune a pre-trained model for API field design task. In the end, we curate two datasets to illustrate our method and the experiment results demonstrate that our method has a better performance in designing API field.