Mining DEV for social and technical insights about software development
Software developers are social creatures: they communicate, collaborate, and promote their work in a variety of channels. Twitter, GitHub, Stack Overflow, and other platforms offer developers opportunities to network and exchange ideas. Researchers analyze content on these sites to learn about trends and topics in software engineering. However, insight mined from the text of Stack Overflow questions or GitHub issues is highly focused on detailed and technical aspects of software development. In this paper, we present a relatively new online community for software developers called DEV. On DEV users write long-form posts about their experiences, preferences, and working life in software, zooming out from specific issues and files to reflect on broader topics. About 50 thousand users have posted over 140 thousand articles related to software development. In this work, we describe the content of posts on DEV using a topic model, showing that developers discuss a rich variety and mixture of social and technical aspects of software development. We show that developers use DEV to promote themselves and their work: 83% link their profiles to their GitHub profiles and 56% to their Twitter profiles. 14% of users pin specific GitHub repos in their profiles. We argue that DEV is emerging as an important hub for software developers, and a valuable source of insight for researchers to complement data from platforms like GitHub and Stack Overflow.
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10:00 - 10:50 | Resources for MSR ResearchTechnical Papers / Data Showcase at MSR Room 1 Chair(s): Felipe Ebert Eindhoven University of Technology | ||
10:01 3mTalk | PSIMiner: A Tool for Mining Rich Abstract Syntax Trees from Code Technical Papers Egor Spirin JetBrains Research; National Research University Higher School of Economics, Egor Bogomolov JetBrains Research, Vladimir Kovalenko JetBrains Research, Timofey Bryksin JetBrains Research, Saint Petersburg State University Pre-print | ||
10:04 3mTalk | Mining DEV for social and technical insights about software development Technical Papers Maria Papoutsoglou Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Johannes Wachs Vienna University of Economics and Business & Complexity Science Hub Vienna, Georgia Kapitsaki University of Cyprus Pre-print | ||
10:07 3mTalk | TNM: A Tool for Mining of Socio-Technical Data from Git Repositories Technical Papers Nikolai Sviridov ITMO University, Mikhail Evtikhiev JetBrains Research, Vladimir Kovalenko JetBrains Research Pre-print | ||
10:10 3mTalk | Identifying Versions of Libraries used in Stack Overflow Code Snippets Technical Papers Ahmed Zerouali Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Camilo Velázquez-Rodríguez Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Coen De Roover Vrije Universiteit Brussel Pre-print Media Attached | ||
10:13 3mTalk | Sampling Projects in GitHub for MSR Studies Data Showcase Ozren Dabic Software Institute, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Switzerland, Emad Aghajani Software Institute, USI Università della Svizzera italiana, Gabriele Bavota Software Institute, USI Università della Svizzera italiana Pre-print | ||
10:16 3mTalk | gambit – An Open Source Name Disambiguation Tool for Version Control Systems Technical Papers Christoph Gote Chair of Systems Design, ETH Zurich, Christian Zingg Chair of Systems Design, ETH Zurich Pre-print Media Attached | ||
10:19 31mLive Q&A | Discussions and Q&A Technical Papers |
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