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most citedAn Empirical Study of Obsolete Answers on Stack Overflow

81 citations · 155 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.SE2023

Are They All Good? Studying Practitioners' Expectations on the Readability of Log Messages

Zhenhao Li, An Ran Chen, Xing Hu +3

Developers write logging statements to generate logs that provide run-time information for various tasks. The readability of log messages in the logging statements (i.e., the descr…

cs.SE2023

Did We Miss Something Important? Studying and Exploring Variable-Aware Log Abstraction

Zhenhao Li, Chuan Luo, Tse-Hsun Chen +4

Due to the sheer size of software logs, developers rely on automated techniques for log analysis. One of the first and most important steps of automated log analysis is log abstrac…

cs.SE2021★ 27 cited

Studying Duplicate Logging Statements and Their Relationships with Code Clones

Zhenhao Li, Tse-Hsun, Chen +2

In this paper, we focus on studying duplicate logging statements, which are logging statements that have the same static text message. We manually studied over 4K duplicate logging…

cs.SE2020★ 9 cited

Logram: Efficient Log Parsing Using n-Gram Dictionaries

Hetong Dai, Heng Li, Weiyi Shang +2

Software systems usually record important runtime information in their logs. Logs help practitioners understand system runtime behaviors and diagnose field failures. As logs are us…

cs.SE2019

Does the hiding mechanism for Stack Overflow comments work well? No!

Haoxiang Zhang, Shaowei Wang, Tse-Hsun Peter Chen +1

Stack Overflow has accumulated millions of answers. Informative comments can strengthen their associated answers (e.g., providing additional information). Currently, Stack Overflow…

cs.SE2019★ 81 cited

An Empirical Study of Obsolete Answers on Stack Overflow

Haoxiang Zhang, Shaowei Wang, Tse-Hsun +3

Stack Overflow accumulates an enormous amount of software engineering knowledge. However, as time passes, certain knowledge in answers may become obsolete. Such obsolete answers, i…