Title :
An exploratory analysis of mobile development issues using stack overflow
Author :
Linares-Vasquez, Mario ; Dit, Bogdan ; Poshyvanyk, Denys
Author_Institution :
Comput. Sci. Dept., Coll. of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA
Abstract :
Question & answer (Q&A) websites, such as Stack Overflow (SO), are widely used by developers to find and provide answers to technical issues and concerns in software development. Mobile development is not an exception to the rule. In the latest SO dump, more than 400K questions were labeled with tags related to mobile technologies. Although, previous works have analyzed the main topics and trends in SO threads, there are no studies devoted specifically to mobile development. In this paper we used topic modeling techniques to extract hot-topics from mobile-development related questions. Our findings suggest that most of the questions include topics related to general questions and compatibility issues, and the most specific topics, such as crash reports and database connection, are present in a reduced set of questions.
Keywords :
Web sites; mobile computing; question answering (information retrieval); software engineering; SO dump; Stack Overflow; compatibility issues; crash reports; database connection; exploratory analysis; mobile development issues; mobile-development related questions; question & answer Websites; topic modeling techniques; Analytical models; Androids; Computer crashes; Entropy; Humanoid robots; Mobile communication; Software; Stack Overflow; mining software repositories; mobile platforms; topic modeling;
Conference_Titel :
Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2013 10th IEEE Working Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-0345-0
DOI :
10.1109/MSR.2013.6624014
