The (r) evolution of social media in software engineering

MA Storey, L Singer, B Cleary, F Figueira Filho… - Future of software …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Software developers rely on media to communicate, learn, collaborate, and coordinate with
others. Recently, social media has dramatically changed the landscape of software …

The shifting sands of motivation: Revisiting what drives contributors in open source

M Gerosa, I Wiese, B Trinkenreich… - 2021 IEEE/ACM …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Open Source Software (OSS) has changed drastically over the last decade, with OSS
projects now producing a large ecosystem of popular products, involving industry …

How social and communication channels shape and challenge a participatory culture in software development

MA Storey, A Zagalsky, F Figueira Filho… - IEEE Transactions …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software developers use many different communication tools and channels in their work.
The diversity of these tools has dramatically increased over the past decade and developers …

Network structure of social coding in github

F Thung, TF Bissyande, D Lo… - 2013 17th European …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Social coding enables a different experience of software development as the activities and
interests of one developer are easily advertised to other developers. Developers can thus …

How to ask for technical help? Evidence-based guidelines for writing questions on Stack Overflow

F Calefato, F Lanubile, N Novielli - Information and software technology, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Context The success of Stack Overflow and other community-based question-and-
answer (Q&A) sites depends mainly on the will of their members to answer others' questions …

The challenges of sentiment detection in the social programmer ecosystem

N Novielli, F Calefato, F Lanubile - … of the 7th international workshop on …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
A recent research trend has emerged to study the role of affect in in the social programmer
ecosystem, by applying sentiment analysis to the content available in sites such as GitHub …

Software engineering at the speed of light: how developers stay current using twitter

L Singer, F Figueira Filho, MA Storey - Proceedings of the 36th …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
The microblogging service Twitter has over 500 million users posting over 500 million tweets
daily. Research has established that software developers use Twitter in their work, but this …

Opportunities and challenges in repeated revisions to pull-requests: An empirical study

Z Li, Y Yu, T Wang, S Li, H Wang - Proceedings of the ACM on Human …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Background: The Pull-Request (PR) model is a widespread approach adopted by open
source software (OSS) projects to support collaborative software development. However, it is …

Student experiences using GitHub in software engineering courses: a case study

J Feliciano, MA Storey, A Zagalsky - Proceedings of the 38th …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
GitHub has been embraced by the software development community as an important social
platform for managing software projects and to support collaborative development. More …

Creating a shared understanding of testing culture on a social coding site

R Pham, L Singer, O Liskin… - 2013 35th …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many software development projects struggle with creating and communicating a testing
culture that is appropriate for the project's needs. This may degrade software quality by …