| Presentation | 2016-03-11 An Empirical Study of Debugging Effectiveness Using Stack Overflow Yuki Ogihara, Takuya Fukamachi, Naoyasu Ubayashi, Shintaro Hosoai, Yasutaka Kamei, |
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| Abstract(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Abstract(in English) | Q&A sites such as Stack Overflow contain huge amount of data for programming technologies. It is effective for many developers to use the data when they debug a program. However, it depends on the developers' experience whether or not the searched information is useful for them. To clarify this hypothesis, we conducted an empirical study. We obtained the following findings: 1) high score posts are useful for beginners and low score posts tend to contain the precious information for advanced developers; 2) most developers tend to search information by giving a raw code snippet when they want to debug a buggy program; and 3) most novice programmers tend to input only an API name into a search engine when they encounter an unknown API usage, while advanced developers tend to specify the combination of appropriate words. |
| Keyword(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Keyword(in English) | Stack Overflow / Debug |
| Paper # | SS2015-94 |
| Date of Issue | 2016-03-03 (SS) |
| Conference Information | |
| Committee | SS |
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| Conference Date | 2016/3/10(2days) |
| Place (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Place (in English) | |
| Topics (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
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| Chair | Shoji Yuen(Nagoya Univ.) |
| Vice Chair | Kazuhiro Ogata(JAIST) |
| Secretary | Kazuhiro Ogata(Tokyo Inst. of Tech.) |
| Assistant | Yoshiki Higo(Osaka Univ.) |
| Paper Information | |
| Registration To | Technical Committee on Software Science |
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| Language | JPN |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Sub Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Title (in English) | An Empirical Study of Debugging Effectiveness Using Stack Overflow |
| Sub Title (in English) | |
| Keyword(1) | Stack Overflow |
| Keyword(2) | Debug |
| 1st Author's Name | Yuki Ogihara |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Kyushu University(Kyushu Univ.) |
| 2nd Author's Name | Takuya Fukamachi |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Kyushu University(Kyushu Univ.) |
| 3rd Author's Name | Naoyasu Ubayashi |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Kyushu University(Kyushu Univ.) |
| 4th Author's Name | Shintaro Hosoai |
| 4th Author's Affiliation | Kyushu University(Kyushu Univ.) |
| 5th Author's Name | Yasutaka Kamei |
| 5th Author's Affiliation | Kyushu University(Kyushu Univ.) |
| Date | 2016-03-11 |
| Paper # | SS2015-94 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.115 |
| Number (no) | SS-508 |
| Page | pp.pp.109-114(SS), |
| #Pages | 6 |
| Date of Issue | 2016-03-03 (SS) |