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ICPC 2021
Tue 18 - Thu 20 May 2021
co-located with ICSE 2021
Thu 20 May 2021 10:50 - 11:00 at ICPC Main Room - Mining for Program Comprehension Chair(s): Chaiyong Rakhitwetsagul

A fast and effective approach to obtain information regarding software development problems is to search them to find similar solved problems or post questions on community question answering (CQA) websites. Solving coding problems in a short time is important, so these CQAs have a considerable impact on the software development process. However, if developers do not get their expected answers, the websites will not be useful, and software development time will increase. Stack Overflow is the most popular CQA concerning programming problems. According to its rules, the only sign that shows a question poser has achieved the desired answer is the user’s acceptance. In this paper, we investigate unresolved questions, without accepted answers, on Stack Overflow. The number of unresolved questions is increasing. As of August 2019, 47% of Stack Overflow questions were unresolved. In this study, we analyze the effectiveness of various features, including some novel features, to resolve a question. We do not use the features that contain information not present at the time of asking a question, such as answers. To evaluate our features, we deploy several predictive models trained on the features of 18 million questions to predict whether a question will get an accepted answer or not. The results of this study show a significant relationship between our proposed features and getting accepted answers. Finally, we introduce an online tool that predicts whether a question will get an accepted answer or not. Currently, Stack Overflow’s users do not receive any feedback on their questions before asking them, so they could carelessly ask unclear, unreadable, or inappropriately tagged questions. By using this tool, they can modify their questions and tags to check the different results of the tool and deliberately improve their questions to get accepted answers.

Thu 20 May

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10:50 - 11:30
Mining for Program ComprehensionResearch at ICPC Main Room
Chair(s): Chaiyong Rakhitwetsagul Mahidol University, Thailand
10:50
10m
Paper
Characterization and Prediction of Questions without Accepted Answers on Stack Overflow
Research
Mohamad Yazdaninia , David Lo Singapore Management University, Ashkan Sami Shiraz University
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11:00
10m
Paper
Multi-Programming-Language Commits in OSS: An Empirical Study on Apache Projects
Research
Zengyang Li Central China Normal University, Xiaoxiao Qi , Qinyi Yu , Peng Liang Wuhan University, Ran Mo Drexel University, Chen Yang IBO Technology Co., Ltd
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11:10
10m
Paper
Code Authors Hidden in File Revision Histories: An Empirical Study
Research
Siyi Gong , Hao Zhong Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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11:20
10m
Paper
Predicting Crash Fault Residence via Simplified Deep Forest Based on A Reduced Feature Set
Research
Kunsong Zhao Wuhan University, Jin Liu Wuhan University, Zhou Xu Chongqing University, China, Li Li Monash University, Meng Yan Chongqing University, Jiaojiao Yu Wuhan University, China, Yuxuan Zhou Syracuse University, USA
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Thu 20 May 2021 10:50 - 11:30 at ICPC Main Room - Mining for Program Comprehension Chair(s): Chaiyong Rakhitwetsagul
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