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StackOverflow (SO), a prominent question-answering site for programming, has amassed a vast repository of user-generated content since its inception in 2008. This paper conducts a thorough analysis of research trends on SO, examining 170 publications ...

Background. Stack Overflow is a prominent Q&A forum, supporting developers in seeking suitable resources on programming-related matters. Having high-quality question titles is an effective means to attract developers’ attention. Research has been ...

Background: The Android permission system is a set of controls to regulate access to sensitive data and platform resources (e.g., cameras). The fast-evolving nature of Android permissions and inadequate documentation result in numerous challenges for ...

In the rapidly evolving landscape of developer communities, Q&A platforms serve as crucial resources for crowdsourcing developers’ knowledge. A notable trend is the increasing use of images to convey complex queries more effectively. However, the ...

Annotations have been widely applied in Java projects to support agile development, expecially in software enterprises. Developers make full use of annotations to conveniently implement special functions such as creating objects, operating ...

eBPF has become a crucial tool for the development of specialized and customized network functions, observability frameworks, and security tools. To support these growing use cases, the eBPF ecosystem (i.e., tool chains, set of language primitives, and ...

Inspired by the great potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) for solving complex coding tasks, in this paper, we propose a novel approach, named Code2API, to automatically perform APIzation for Stack Overflow code snippets. Code2API does not require ...

Machine learning (ML), including deep learning, has recently gained tremendous popularity in a wide range of applications. However, like traditional software, ML applications are not immune to the bugs that result from programming errors. Explicit ...

Nowadays mobile computing has penetrated into our lives and work. Major companies have invested a lot of material and financial resources in the development of mobile terminals. For developers, querying the right API is extremely important. However, ...

The prevailing strategy for ensuring the accessibility of web applications involves adhering to established accessibility guidelines. Yet, there has been insufficient investigation into the developer’s challenges concerning these guidelines during the ...

Software logs play a vital role in ensuring the reliability and availability of large-scale software systems. In recent years, researchers have made significant efforts to build log analysis approaches to manage software systems. However, these ...

The tremendous success of Stack Overflow has accumulated an extensive corpus of software engineering knowledge, thus motivating researchers to propose various solutions for analyzing its content. The performance of such solutions hinges significantly on ...

The increasing number of attacks exploiting system vulnerabilities in recent years underpins the growing importance of security; especially for software comprising configuration options that may cause unintended vulnerabilities. So, not surprisingly, ...

Technical question-answering sites like Stack Overflow are gaining enormous attention from practitioners of specialized fields looking to exchange their programming knowledge. They ask questions on different topics with varying degrees of ...

• Introduced A-Priori feature set to address cold-start problems.
• Pre-hoc feature set is sufficient to filter out the questions based on difficulty.
• Proposed model outperforms contemporary models even with fewer features.
• ...

Community question and answer (Q&A) websites have become invaluable information and knowledge-sharing sources. Effective topic modelling on these platforms is crucial for organising and navigating the vast amount of user-generated content. To address ...

Data pipelines are an integral part of various modern data-driven systems. However, despite their importance, they are often unreliable and deliver poor-quality data. A critical step toward improving this situation is a solid understanding of the ...

• 41 factors influencing the quality of data pipelines were identified.
• Data-related issues mainly occur in the data cleaning stage of pipelines.
• Data-related issues are mainly caused by incorrect data types.
• Data integration and ...

This research addresses the challenge of extracting and analyzing data from Stack Overflow to uncover insights into programming language trends, community contributions, and talent availability. The aim is to provide developers, organizations, and ...

GPUs have cemented their position in computer systems, not restricted to graphics but also extensively used for general-purpose computing. With this comes a rapidly expanding population of developers using GPUs for programming. However, programming with ...

Fixing crashes is challenging, and developers often discuss their encountered crashes and refer to similar crashes and solutions on online Q&A forums (e.g., Stack Overflow). However, a crash often involves very complex contexts, which includes different ...

Software testing is an integral part of modern software engineering practice. Past research has not only underlined its significance, but also revealed its multi-faceted nature. The practice of software testing and its adoption is ...

• We combine NLP tools and STGT to investigate the sentiment in 200 testing posts.