How do API changes trigger stack overflow discussions? a study on the Android SDK

2019 IEEE/ACM 27th International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC) Pub Date : 2014-06-02 DOI:10.1145/2597008.2597155

M. Vásquez, G. Bavota, M. D. Penta, R. Oliveto, D. Poshyvanyk

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The growing number of questions related to mobile development in StackOverflow highlights an increasing interest of software developers in mobile programming. For the Android platform, 213,836 questions were tagged with Android-related labels in StackOverflow between July 2008 and August 2012. This paper aims at investigating how changes occurring to Android APIs trigger questions and activity in StackOverflow, and whether this is particularly true for certain kinds of changes. Our findings suggest that Android developers usually have more questions when the behavior of APIs is modified. In addition, deleting public methods from APIs is a trigger for questions that are (i) more discussed and of major interest for the community, and (ii) posted by more experienced developers. In general, results of this paper provide important insights about the use of social media to learn about changes in software ecosystems, and establish solid foundations for building new recommenders for notifying developers/managers about important changes and recommending them relevant crowdsourced solutions

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API变化如何引发堆栈溢出讨论?Android SDK的研究

在StackOverflow中与移动开发相关的越来越多的问题突出了软件开发人员对移动编程的兴趣。在Android平台上，2008年7月至2012年8月期间，StackOverflow上有213,836个问题被标记为与Android相关的标签。本文旨在调查Android api的变化是如何触发StackOverflow中的问题和活动的，以及对于某些类型的变化是否特别正确。我们的研究结果表明，当api的行为被修改时，Android开发者通常会有更多的问题。此外，从api中删除公共方法会引发(i)更多讨论和社区主要感兴趣的问题，以及(ii)更有经验的开发人员发布的问题。总的来说，本文的结果提供了关于使用社交媒体来了解软件生态系统变化的重要见解，并为建立新的推荐者奠定了坚实的基础，以便通知开发人员/管理人员有关重要变化并向他们推荐相关的众包解决方案

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