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most citedHow to Ask for Technical Help? Evidence-based Guidelines for Writing Questions on Stack Overflow

133 citations · 197 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.SE2021

GitHub Discussions: An Exploratory Study of Early Adoption

Hideaki Hata, Nicole Novielli, Sebastian Baltes +2

Discussions is a new feature of GitHub for asking questions or discussing topics outside of specific Issues or Pull Requests. Before being available to all projects in December 202…

cs.SE2020

Assessment of Off-the-Shelf SE-specific Sentiment Analysis Tools: An Extended Replication Study

Nicole Novielli, Fabio Calefato, Filippo Lanubile +1

Sentiment analysis methods have become popular for investigating human communication, including discussions related to software projects. Since general-purpose sentiment analysis t…

cs.SE2020

Pandemic Programming: How COVID-19 affects software developers and how their organizations can help

Paul Ralph, Sebastian Baltes, Gianisa Adisaputri +14

Context. As a novel coronavirus swept the world in early 2020, thousands of software developers began working from home. Many did so on short notice, under difficult and stressful…

cs.SE202010 cited

Love, Joy, Anger, Sadness, Fear, and Surprise: SE Needs Special Kinds of AI: A Case Study on Text Mining and SE

Nicole Novielli, Fabio Calefato, Filippo Lanubile

Do you like your code? What kind of code makes developers happiest? What makes them angriest? Is it possible to monitor the mood of a large team of coders to determine when and whe…

cs.SE2020

Can We Use SE-specific Sentiment Analysis Tools in a Cross-Platform Setting?

Nicole Novielli, Fabio Calefato, Davide Dongiovanni +2

In this paper, we address the problem of using sentiment analysis tools 'off-the-shelf,' that is when a gold standard is not available for retraining. We evaluate the performance o…

cs.HC202028 cited

ArguLens: Anatomy of Community Opinions On Usability Issues Using Argumentation Models

Wenting Wang, Deeksha Arya, Nicole Novielli +2

In open-source software (OSS), the design of usability is often influenced by the discussions among community members on platforms such as issue tracking systems (ITSs). However, d…