When knowledgeable colleagues are not available, developers resort to offline and online
resources, eg, tutorials, mailing lists, and Q&A websites. These, however, need to be found …

Current image search engines on the web rely purely on the keywords around the images
and the filenames, which produces a lot of garbage in the search results. Alternatively, there …

Software development video tutorials have seen a steep increase in popularity in recent
years. Their main advantage is that they thoroughly illustrate how certain technologies …

Context Software development is increasingly dependent on existing libraries. Developers
need help to find suitable library APIs. Although many studies have been proposed to …

The software development process is a complex human, intellectual and labor-intensive
activity and human related factors have shown to be the most significant contributors to …

Background: Compilers tend to produce cryptic and uninformative error messages, leaving
programmers confused and requiring them to spend precious time to resolve the underlying …

Nowadays developers heavily rely on sources of informal documentation, including Q&A
forums, slides, or video tutorials, the latter being particularly useful to provide introductory …

Context: Crowdsourced Software Engineering CSE offers outsourcing work to software
practitioners by leveraging a global online workforce. However these software practitioners …

Recommendation systems have the potential to support their users for filtering information
and making a decision. They have become a promising research area over the past two …

Software developers use a mix of source code and natural language text to communicate
with each other: Stack Overflow and Developer mailing lists abound with this mixed text …