WTD Episode 25: Researching how developers use API docs, with Andrew Head

In episode 25, we talk with Andrew Head, Ph.D. Candidate in
Computer Science at UC Berkeley, about his research on how
developers use API documentation. Specifically, we focused on a
recent article he co-authored titled When Not to Comment: Questions
and Tradeoffs with API Documentation for C++ Projects. During the
podcast, we chat about the following: where developers look for
information, how developers manage information in Google’s unique
billion-line code base, when it's appropriate to just let
developers read the code directly versus creating documentation,
what kind of information developers look for in API documentation,
the relevance of document generators such as Doxygen, and more.
Andrew also talked about some projects he's working on to build
interactive tools for developers to share code expertise.