An exploratory analysis of mobile development issues using stack overflow

Linares‐Vásquez, Mario; Dit, Bogdan; Poshyvanyk, Denys

doi:10.1109/msr.2013.6624014

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“…The usage of tags for filtering the questions is justified as we are using the generic tags (as described in Section 3.2) that differentiate between different mobile development platforms. We used the mobile development related tags shortlisted in prior work [10] to a create subset of the data (Step 7) from the three datasets that we had. The tags are: android, bada, blackberry, iphone, ios, java-me, phonegap, symbian, tizen, webos, and windows-phone.…”

Section: Data Processingmentioning

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Mining questions asked by web developers

Bajaj

Pattabiraman

Mesbah

2014

Proceedings of the 11th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories

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Modern web applications consist of a significant amount of clientside code, written in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. In this paper, we present a study of common challenges and misconceptions among web developers, by mining related questions asked on Stack Overflow. We use unsupervised learning to categorize the mined questions and define a ranking algorithm to rank all the Stack Overflow questions based on their importance. We analyze the top 50 questions qualitatively. The results indicate that (1) the overall share of web development related discussions is increasing among developers, (2) browser related discussions are prevalent; however, this share is decreasing with time, (3) form validation and other DOM related discussions have been discussed consistently over time, (4) web related discussions are becoming more prevalent in mobile development, and (5) developers face implementation issues with new HTML5 features such as Canvas. We examine the implications of the results on the development, research, and standardization communities.

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Section: Data Processingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mining questions asked by web developers

Bajaj

Pattabiraman

Mesbah

2014

Proceedings of the 11th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories

132

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“…However, mobile-related questions in SO are not only related to programming, and there is no existing empirical evidence of specific causes that motivate mobile developers to find and/or provide answers in a Q&A system like SO. A study by Linares-Vásquez et al [25] suggests that hot-topics in SO mobile development related questions include general topics such as device compatibility and IDE-related issues, and specific topics related to database, media, and maps programming. For instance, two examples of questions in SO with more than 700 votes as of January 2013, are the Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page.…”

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

Linares‐Vásquez

Bavota

Penta

et al. 2014

Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Program Comprehension

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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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“…Stevens et al [19] used Stack Overflow to study the relationship between the popularity of a permission and the number of times a permission is overused in an app. Similarly, Vasquez et al [10] used Stack Overflow posts related to mobile development to understand the issues discussed by mobile app developers. In a similar vein, we also used Stack Overflow to identify security-related APIs.…”

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BenchPress: Analyzing Android App Vulnerability Benchmark Suites

Mitra

Ranganath

Narkar

2019

2019 34th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering Workshop (ASEW)

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In recent years, various benchmark suites have been developed to evaluate the efficacy of Android security analysis tools. The choice of such benchmark suites used in tool evaluations is often based on the availability and popularity of suites and not on their characteristics and relevance. One of the reasons for such choices is the lack of information about the characteristics and relevance of benchmarks suites.In this context, we empirically evaluated four Android specific benchmark suites: DroidBench, Ghera, ICCBench, and UBCBench. For each benchmark suite, we identified the APIs used by the suite that were discussed on Stack Overflow in the context of Android app development and measured the usage of these APIs in a sample of 227K real world apps (coverage). We also compared each pair of benchmark suites to identify the differences between them in terms of API usage. Finally, we identified security-related APIs used in real-world apps but not in any of the above benchmark suites to assess the opportunities to extend benchmark suites (gaps).The findings in this paper can help 1) Android security analysis tool developers choose benchmark suites that are best suited to evaluate their tools (informed by coverage and pairwise comparison) and 2) Android app vulnerability benchmark creators develop and extend benchmark suites (informed by gaps).

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An exploratory analysis of mobile development issues using stack overflow

Cited by 72 publications

References 9 publications

Mining questions asked by web developers

Mining questions asked by web developers

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

BenchPress: Analyzing Android App Vulnerability Benchmark Suites

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