An Empirical Study on the Characteristics of Question-Answering Process on Developer Forums (ASE 2019 - Late Breaking Results)

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Yi Li, Shaohua Wang, Tien N. Nguyen, Son Nguyen, Xinyue Ye, Yan Wang

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ASE 2019 Late Breaking Results

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Wed 13 Nov 2019 15:20 - 16:00 at Kensington Ballroom - Poster Session: Late Breaking Results

Abstract

Developer forums are one of the most popular and useful Q&A websites on API usages. The analysis of API forums can be a critical resource for the automated question and answer approaches. In this paper, we empirically study three API forums including Twitter, eBay, and AdWords, to investigate the characteristics of question-answering process. We observe that +60% of the posts on all three forums were answered by providing API method names or documentation. +85% of the questions were answered by API development teams and the answers from API development teams drew fewer follow-up questions. Our results provide empirical evidences for us in a future work to build automated solutions to answer developer questions on API forums.

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https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.06492

Yi Li

Nanyang Technological University

Singapore

Shaohua Wang

New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

United States

Tien N. Nguyen

University of Texas at Dallas

United States

Son Nguyen

The University of Texas at Dallas

United States

Xinyue Ye

Yan Wang

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15:20 - 16:00	Poster Session: Late Breaking ResultsLate Breaking Results at Kensington Ballroom

15:20 40m Poster		Recommendation of Exception Handling Code in Mobile App Development Late Breaking Results Tam Nguyen , Phong Minh Vu , Tung Thanh Nguyen Pre-print
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15:20 40m Poster		K-CONFIG: Using Failing Test Cases to Generate Test Cases in GCC Compilers Late Breaking Results Md Rafiqul Islam Rabin University of Houston, Mohammad Amin Alipour Pre-print Media Attached
15:20 40m Poster		An Empirical Study on the Characteristics of Question-Answering Process on Developer Forums Late Breaking Results Yi Li Nanyang Technological University, Shaohua Wang New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA, Tien N. Nguyen University of Texas at Dallas, Son Nguyen The University of Texas at Dallas, Xinyue Ye , Yan Wang Pre-print
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15:20 40m Poster		Data Sanity Check for Deep Learning Systems via Learnt Assertions Late Breaking Results Haochuan Lu Fudan University, Huanlin Xu , Nana Liu , Yangfan Zhou Fudan University, Xin Wang Pre-print
15:20 40m Poster		Software Engineering for Fairness: A Case Study with Hyperparameter Optimization Late Breaking Results Joymallya Chakraborty North Carolina State University, Tianpei Xia , Fahmid M. Fahid , Tim Menzies North Carolina State University Pre-print
15:20 40m Poster		API Misuse Correction: A Statistical Approach Late Breaking Results Tam Nguyen , Phong Minh Vu , Tung Thanh Nguyen Pre-print
15:20 40m Poster		Should We Add Repair Time to an Unfixed Bug? An Exploratory Study of Automated Program Repair on 2980 Small-Scale Programs Late Breaking Results Chuanqi Xu , Yisen Xu , Yingqi Zhang , Jifeng Xuan Wuhan University Pre-print
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15:20 40m Poster		The Dynamics of Software Composition Analysis Late Breaking Results Darius Foo , Jason Yeo , Hao Xiao , Asankhaya Sharma Pre-print
15:20 40m Poster		A Process Mining based Approach to Improving Defect Detection of SysML Models. Late Breaking Results Mounifah Alenazi , Nan Niu University of Cincinnati, Juha Savolainen Danfoss Pre-print
15:20 40m Poster		Open-Source Projects and their Collaborative Development Workflows Late Breaking Results panuchart bunyakiati kasetsart university, Usa Sammapun kasetsart university Pre-print
15:20 40m Poster		Detecting Deep Neural Network Defects with Data Flow Analysis Late Breaking Results Jiazhen Gu , Huanlin Xu , Yangfan Zhou Fudan University, Xin Wang , Hui Xu , Michael Lyu The Chinese University of Hong Kong Pre-print
15:20 40m Poster		On building an automated responding system for app reviews: What are the characteristics of reviews and their responses? Late Breaking Results Phong Minh Vu , Tam Nguyen , Tung Thanh Nguyen Pre-print