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How do API changes trigger stack overflow discussions? a study on the Android SDK
Abstract
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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- Authors
- Linares-Vásquez, M., Bavota, G., Di Penta, M., Oliveto, R., & Poshyvanyk, D.
- Affiliations
- College of William and Mary, USA
- University of Sannio (IT)
- University of Sannio, Italy
- University of Molise (IT)
- William & Mary (US)
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Program Comprehension
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2014-06-02
- Pages
- 83-94
- OpenAlex
- W1975296856
- Cited by
- 146
- References
- 35
- Citations by year
- 2025: 4 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 15 · 2020: 18 · 2019: 22 · 2018: 15 · 2017: 14 · 2016: 20 · 2015: 10 · 2014: 3
- FWCI
- 13.33
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- International Conference on Program Comprehension (publishedVersion)
- Open Research (University of Surrey) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Software Engineering Research
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Expert finding and Q&A systems
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Mobile and Web Applications
- Keywords
- API changes, Android SDK, Stack Overflow, developer questions, developer experience, developer expertise, mobile development
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