Software developers are humans, too!

Vasilescu, Bogdan

doi:10.1145/2556420.2556833

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“…The assumption is that programmers are thorough professional and are neutral and unbiased in their approach. In this paper, and as is also corroborated by existed literature, we find that software programmers are quite 'human' in their approach [35]. We extend the idea in [35] and highlight a few issues that so far eludes literature.…”

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“…In this paper, and as is also corroborated by existed literature, we find that software programmers are quite 'human' in their approach [35]. We extend the idea in [35] and highlight a few issues that so far eludes literature. Building upon the observations discussed in the paper, future work can explore the humanistic point of view of software programmers.…”

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Understanding and evaluating the behavior of technical users. A study of developer interaction at StackOverflow

Ahmed

Srivastava

2017

Hum. Cent. Comput. Inf. Sci.

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This paper is focused on analyzing the details of one of the most widely used Q&A technical discussion forums on the Internet: StackOverflow. StackOverflow is a huge source of information for both academics and industry practitioners and its analysis can provide useful insights. This is evident by a growing body of work dedicated to the study of this platform. There are several papers that have taken the ‘platform’ as an analyzing point to gain a few useful insights into the practices adopted by software developers. However, different from current literature, the objective of this paper is to explore the habit of users, more specifically, we want to find out how do technical users behave online? In doing so, we attempt to present a new picture that focuses more on the human aspect of this online community. We neither focus on the technical aspects of the platform nor do we focus on the technical capabilities of developers, rather, the focus of this paper is to explore the humanistic point of view of technical users. To do that, we mine StackOverflow’s repositories to find a few patterns that raise several questions. The observations presented in this paper highlight real world implications of having open call based software engineering platforms. Further, we conduct a survey of StackOverflow users to find an answer to one of the highly talked about topics on Meta (a discussion forum for StackOverflow). The subject of the survey concerns changing participation habit of users. As the paper progresses forward, we discuss factors that raise the issue of professionalism and ethics at this online venue. The findings show several malpractices happening at StackOverflow. We present a detailed analysis and discuss these issues in this paper.

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Understanding and evaluating the behavior of technical users. A study of developer interaction at StackOverflow

Ahmed

Srivastava

2017

Hum. Cent. Comput. Inf. Sci.

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“…The users active on both channels are more active compared to those who concentrate specifically on only one of them. The users give quick answers on SE compared to r-help, signifying us they are inspired by the gamified environment (Vasilescu et al , 2014, Vasilescu, 2014).…”

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A survey on mining stack overflow: question and answering (Q&A) community

Ahmad

Feng

Shi

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Purpose Software developers extensively use stack overflow (SO) for knowledge sharing on software development. Thus, software engineering researchers have started mining the structured/unstructured data present in certain software repositories including the Q&A software developer community SO, with the aim to improve software development. The purpose of this paper is show that how academics/practitioners can get benefit from the valuable user-generated content shared on various online social networks, specifically from Q&A community SO for software development. Design/methodology/approach A comprehensive literature review was conducted and 166 research papers on SO were categorized about software development from the inception of SO till June 2016. Findings Most of the studies revolve around a limited number of software development tasks; approximately 70 percent of the papers used millions of posts data, applied basic machine learning methods, and conducted investigations semi-automatically and quantitative studies. Thus, future research should focus on the overcoming existing identified challenges and gaps. Practical implications The work on SO is classified into two main categories; “SO design and usage” and “SO content applications.” These categories not only give insights to Q&A forum providers about the shortcomings in design and usage of such forums but also provide ways to overcome them in future. It also enables software developers to exploit such forums for the identified under-utilized tasks of software development. Originality/value The study is the first of its kind to explore the work on SO about software development and makes an original contribution by presenting a comprehensive review, design/usage shortcomings of Q&A sites, and future research challenges.

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Exploring Online Programming-Related Information Seeking Behaviors via Discussion Forums

Hsiao

2016

2016 IEEE 16th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT)

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Software developers are humans, too!

Cited by 4 publications

References 16 publications

Understanding and evaluating the behavior of technical users. A study of developer interaction at StackOverflow

Understanding and evaluating the behavior of technical users. A study of developer interaction at StackOverflow

A survey on mining stack overflow: question and answering (Q&A) community

Exploring Online Programming-Related Information Seeking Behaviors via Discussion Forums

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