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Presentation 2016-03-11 10:25
An Empirical Study of Debugging Effectiveness Using Stack Overflow
Yuki Ogihara, Takuya Fukamachi, Naoyasu Ubayashi, Shintaro Hosoai, Yasutaka Kamei (Kyushu Univ.) SS2015-94
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(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.
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(in English) Stack Overflow / Debug / / / / / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 115, no. 508, SS2015-94, pp. 109-114, March 2016.
Paper # SS2015-94 
Date of Issue 2016-03-03 (SS) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685    Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Conference Date 2016-03-10 - 2016-03-11 
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Title (in English) An Empirical Study of Debugging Effectiveness Using Stack Overflow 
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Keyword(2) Debug  
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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.)
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Date Time 2016-03-11 10:25:00 
Presentation Time 25 minutes 
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Paper # SS2015-94 
Volume (vol) vol.115 
Number (no) no.508 
Page pp.109-114 
#Pages 6 
Date of Issue 2016-03-03 (SS) 

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