Context: GitHub, nowadays the most popular social coding platform, has become the
reference for mining Open Source repositories, a growing research trend aiming at learning …

Context: Software development is a collaborative task. Previous research has shown social
aspects within development teams to be highly relevant for the success of software projects …

Q&A platforms have been crucial for the online help-seeking behavior of programmers.
However, the recent popularity of ChatGPT is altering this trend. Despite this popularity, no …

Grounded Theory (GT), a sociological research method designed to study social
phenomena, is increasingly being used to investigate the human and social aspects of …

Software processes comprise many steps; coding is followed by building, integration testing,
system testing, deployment, operations, among others. Software process integration and …

The term 'crowdsourcing'was initially introduced in 2006 to describe an emerging distributed
problem-solving model by online workers. Since then it has been widely studied and …

Social applications on the web let users track and follow the activities of a large number of
others regardless of location or affiliation. There is a potential for this transparency to …

Stack Overflow is a popular on-line programming question and answer community providing
its participants with rapid access to knowledge and expertise of their peers, especially …

Open Source Software (OSS) has changed drastically over the last decade, with OSS
projects now producing a large ecosystem of popular products, involving industry …

Sentiment Analysis tools, developed for analyzing social media text or product reviews, work
poorly on a Software Engineering (SE) dataset. Since prior studies have found developers …