Blogging developer knowledge: Motivations, challenges, and future directions

2013 21st International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC) Pub Date : 2013-05-01 DOI:10.1109/ICPC.2013.6613850

Chris Parnin, Christoph Treude, M. Storey

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Abstract

Why do software developers place so much effort into writing public blog posts about their knowledge, experiences, and opinions on software development? What are the benefits, problems, and tools needed-what can the research community do to help? In this paper, we describe a research agenda aimed at understanding the motivations and issues of software development blogging. We interviewed developers as well as mined and analyzed their blog posts. For this initial study, we selected developers from various backgrounds: IDE plugin development, mobile development, and web development. We found that developers used blogging for a variety of functions such as documentation, technology discussion, and announcing progress. They were motivated by a variety of reasons such as personal branding, knowledge retention, and feedback. Among the challenges for blog authors identified in our initial study, we found primitive tool support, difficulty recreating and recalling recent development experiences, and management of blog comments. Finally, many developers expressed that the motivations and benefits they received for blogging in public did not directly translate to corporate settings.

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博客开发者知识:动机、挑战和未来方向

为什么软件开发人员花费如此多的精力来撰写关于他们在软件开发方面的知识、经验和观点的公开博客文章?好处、问题和需要的工具是什么——研究界能做些什么来提供帮助?在本文中，我们描述了一个旨在理解软件开发博客的动机和问题的研究议程。我们采访了开发者，挖掘并分析了他们的博客文章。在最初的研究中，我们选择了来自不同背景的开发人员:IDE插件开发、移动开发和web开发。我们发现开发人员将博客用于各种功能，如文档、技术讨论和宣布进展。他们的动机有各种各样的原因，比如个人品牌、知识保留和反馈。在我们最初的研究中确定的博客作者面临的挑战中，我们发现了原始的工具支持，难以重新创建和回忆最近的开发经验，以及博客评论的管理。最后，许多开发人员表示，他们公开写博客的动机和好处并没有直接转化为企业环境。

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