Using social media to study the diversity of example usage among professional developers

Authors:
Ohad Barzilay;Orit Hazzan;Amiram Yehudai
Affiliations:
Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv , Israel;Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel;Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Venue:
Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGSOFT symposium and the 13th European conference on Foundations of software engineering
Year:
2011

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Abstract

Socio-professional websites such as LinkedIn use various mechanisms such as network of colleagues, groups and discussions to assist their users in maintaining their professional network and keeping up with relevant discussions. Software professionals post hundreds of thousands of comments each week in these group discussions regarding technological and methodological aspects of their work. Analyzing these comments enables us, the software community at large, to better understand the state of the practice of many aspects of software development. In this paper we describe a case study in which we use such LinkedIn group discussion to learn about developers' perception of using code examples.