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MSR 2019
Sun 26 - Mon 27 May 2019 Montreal, QC, Canada
co-located with ICSE 2019

Modern software development communities are increasingly social. Popular chat platforms such as Slack host public chat communities that focus on specific development topics such as Python or Ruby-on-Rails. Conversations in these public chats often follow a Q&A format, with someone seeking information and others providing answers in chat form. In this paper, we describe an exploratory study into the potential use- fulness and challenges of mining developer Q&A conversations for supporting software maintenance and evolution tools. We designed the study to investigate the availability of information that has been successfully mined from other developer communications, particularly Stack Overflow. We also analyze characteristics of chat conversations that might inhibit accurate automated analysis. Our results indicate the prevalence of useful information, including API mentions and code snippets with descriptions, and several hurdles that need to be overcome to automate mining that information.

Mon 27 May

Displayed time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) change

11:55 - 12:30
Session VII: Collaboration & Communication (Part 2)MSR 2019 Technical Papers at Place du Canada
Chair(s): Kelly Blincoe University of Auckland
11:55
15m
Full-paper
Can Issues Reported at Stack Overflow Questions be Reproduced? An Exploratory Study
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
Saikat Mondal University of Saskatchewan, Masud Rahman University of Saskatchewan , Chanchal K. Roy University of Saskatchewan
Pre-print
12:10
15m
Full-paper
Exploratory Study of Slack Q&A Chats as a Mining Source for Software Engineering Tools
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
Preetha Chatterjee University of Delaware, USA, Kostadin Damevski Virginia Commonwealth University, Lori Pollock University of Delaware, USA, Vinay Augustine , Nicholas A. Kraft ABB Corporate Research
Pre-print
12:25
6m
Short-paper
Impacts of Daylight Saving Time on Software Development
MSR 2019 Technical Papers
Junichi Hayashi Osaka University, Yoshiki Higo Osaka University, Shinsuke Matsumoto Osaka University, Shinji Kusumoto Osaka University
Pre-print