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

fYear

2013

fDate

18-19 May 2013

Firstpage

93

Lastpage

96

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2013 10th IEEE Working Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

2160-1852

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0345-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MSR.2013.6624014

Filename

6624014