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14 papers
On the diversity and frequency of code related to mathematical formulas in real-world Java projects
Oliver Moseler, Felix Lemmer, Sebastian Baltes +1
In this paper, the term formula code refers to fragments of source code that implement a mathematical formula. We present empirical studies that analyze the diversity and frequency…
The Evolution of Stack Overflow Posts: Reconstruction and Analysis
Sebastian Baltes, Lorik Dumani, Christoph Treude +1
Stack Overflow (SO) is the most popular question-and-answer website for software developers, providing a large amount of code snippets and free-form text on a wide variety of topic…
Exploring the Limits of Complexity: A Survey of Empirical Studies on Graph Visualisation
Vahan Yoghourdjian, Daniel Archambault, Stephan Diehl +4
For decades, researchers in information visualisation and graph drawing have focused on developing techniques for the layout and display of very large and complex networks. Experim…
SOTorrent: Studying the Origin, Evolution, and Usage of Stack Overflow Code Snippets
Sebastian Baltes, Christoph Treude, Stephan Diehl
Stack Overflow (SO) is the most popular question-and-answer website for software developers, providing a large amount of copyable code snippets. Like other software artifacts, code…
Towards a Theory of Software Development Expertise
Sebastian Baltes, Stephan Diehl
Software development includes diverse tasks such as implementing new features, analyzing requirements, and fixing bugs. Being an expert in those tasks requires a certain set of ski…
SOTorrent: Reconstructing and Analyzing the Evolution of Stack Overflow Posts
Sebastian Baltes, Lorik Dumani, Christoph Treude +1
Stack Overflow (SO) is the most popular question-and-answer website for software developers, providing a large amount of code snippets and free-form text on a wide variety of topic…
(No) Influence of Continuous Integration on the Commit Activity in GitHub Projects
Sebastian Baltes, Jascha Knack, Daniel Anastasiou +2
A core goal of Continuous Integration (CI) is to make small incremental changes to software projects, which are integrated frequently into a mainline repository or branch. This pap…
Usage and Attribution of Stack Overflow Code Snippets in GitHub Projects
Sebastian Baltes, Stephan Diehl
Stack Overflow (SO) is the most popular question-and-answer website for software developers, providing a large amount of copyable code snippets. Using those snippets raises mainten…
Round-Trip Sketches: Supporting the Lifecycle of Software Development Sketches from Analog to Digital and Back
Sebastian Baltes, Fabrice Hollerich, Stephan Diehl
Sketching is an important activity for understanding, designing, and communicating different aspects of software systems such as their requirements or architecture. Often, sketches…
Worse Than Spam: Issues In Sampling Software Developers
Sebastian Baltes, Stephan Diehl
Background: Reaching out to professional software developers is a crucial part of empirical software engineering research. One important method to investigate the state of practice…
Attribution Required: Stack Overflow Code Snippets in GitHub Projects
Sebastian Baltes, Richard Kiefer, Stephan Diehl
Stack Overflow (SO) is the largest Q&A website for developers, providing a huge amount of copyable code snippets. Using these snippets raises various maintenance and legal issues.…
Navigate, Understand, Communicate: How Developers Locate Performance Bugs
Sebastian Baltes, Oliver Moseler, Fabian Beck +1
Background: Performance bugs can lead to severe issues regarding computation efficiency, power consumption, and user experience. Locating these bugs is a difficult task because dev…
Linking Sketches and Diagrams to Source Code Artifacts
Sebastian Baltes, Peter Schmitz, Stephan Diehl
Recent studies have shown that sketches and diagrams play an important role in the daily work of software developers. If these visual artifacts are archived, they are often detache…
Sketches and Diagrams in Practice
Sebastian Baltes, Stephan Diehl
Sketches and diagrams play an important role in the daily work of software developers. In this paper, we investigate the use of sketches and diagrams in software engineering practi…