Mining Developer Questions about Major Web Frameworks

Zakaria Mehrab, Raquib Bin Yousuf, Ibrahim Asadullah Tahmid, Rifat Shahriyar

2018

Abstract

Web frameworks are the de facto way to build web-enabled applications. Stack Overflow, being one of the leading question answering sites available, has become a helpful resource in numerous software engineering research. In this paper, we present a study of common challenges and issues among developers of two major web frameworks namely Laravel and Django by mining questions asked on Stack Overflow. We extracted the issues that the developers are most concerned about. We sorted these issues by popularity and difficulty metrics and observed the contrasting nature of difficulty and popularity. We also noted an exception that installation is a popular issue over both the frameworks and simultaneously it is also difficult to resolve. Besides, we found that about 50% issues are common over both the frameworks. Our findings would help the framework developers to understand better the need of the framework users by focusing most difficult and the most popular issues.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Mehrab Z., Yousuf R., Tahmid I. and Shahriyar R. (2018). Mining Developer Questions about Major Web Frameworks.In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-758-324-7, pages 191-198. DOI: 10.5220/0006929501910198

in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist18,
author={Zakaria Mehrab and Raquib Bin Yousuf and Ibrahim Asadullah Tahmid and Rifat Shahriyar},
title={Mining Developer Questions about Major Web Frameworks},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2018},
pages={191-198},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006929501910198},
isbn={978-989-758-324-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - Mining Developer Questions about Major Web Frameworks
SN - 978-989-758-324-7
AU - Mehrab Z.
AU - Yousuf R.
AU - Tahmid I.
AU - Shahriyar R.
PY - 2018
SP - 191
EP - 198
DO - 10.5220/0006929501910198