SPADE: an efficient algorithm for mining frequent sequences
Machine Learning
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The Journal of Machine Learning Research
Information diffusion through blogspace
ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter
Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Mining software repositories
Identifying opinion leaders in the blogosphere
Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM conference on Conference on information and knowledge management
How tagging helps bridge the gap between social and technical aspects in software development
ICSE '09 Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Software Engineering
From work to word: How do software developers describe their work?
MSR '09 Proceedings of the 2009 6th IEEE International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories
Social media for software engineering
Proceedings of the FSE/SDP workshop on Future of software engineering research
Combining micro-blogging and IDE interactions to support developers in their quests
ICSM '10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance
Workshop report from Web2SE 2011: 2nd international workshop on web 2.0 for software engineering
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
Towards systematic analysis of continuous user input
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Observatory of trends in software related microblogs
Proceedings of the 27th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
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An empirical study on developer interactions in StackOverflow
Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Tag recommendation in software information sites
Proceedings of the 10th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories
How do open source communities blog?
Empirical Software Engineering
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We report on an exploratory study, which aims at understanding how software developers use social media compared to conventional development infrastructures. We analyzed the blogging and the committing behavior of 1,100 developers in four large open source communities. We observed that these communities intensively use blogs with one new entry about every 8 hours. A blog entry includes 14 times more words than a commit message. When analyzing the content of the blogs, we found that most popular topics represent high-level concepts such as functional requirements and domain concepts. Source code related topics are covered in less than 15% of the posts. Our results also show that developers are more likely to blog after corrective engineering and management activities than after forward engineering and re-engineering activities. Our findings call for a hypothesis-driven research to further understand the role of social media in software engineering and integrate it into development processes and tools.