TY - GEN
T1 - An exploratory analysis of mobile development issues using Stack Overflow
AU - Linares-Vásquez, Mario
AU - Dit, Bogdan
AU - Poshyvanyk, Denys
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Mining software repositories
KW - Mobile platforms
KW - Stack Overflow
KW - Topic modeling
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84889016879&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/MSR.2013.6624014
DO - 10.1109/MSR.2013.6624014
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84889016879
SN - 9781467329361
T3 - IEEE International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories
SP - 93
EP - 96
BT - 2013 10th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR 2013 - Proceedings
T2 - 10th International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR 2013
Y2 - 18 May 2013 through 19 May 2013
ER -