TY - GEN
T1 - DiffTech
T2 - 28th ACM Joint Meeting European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, ESEC/FSE 2020
AU - Wang, Han
AU - Chen, Chunyang
AU - Xing, Zhenchang
AU - Grundy, John
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 ACM.
PY - 2020/11/8
Y1 - 2020/11/8
N2 - Developers can use different technologies for different software development tasks in their work. However, when faced with several technologies with comparable functionalities, it can be challenging for developers to select the most appropriate one, as trial and error comparisons among such technologies are time-consuming. Instead, developers resort to expert articles, read official documents or ask questions in Q&A sites for technology comparison. However, it is still very opportunistic whether they will get a comprehensive comparison, as online information is often fragmented, contradictory and biased. To overcome these limitations, we propose the DiffTech system that exploits the crowd sourced discussions from Stack Overflow, and assists technology comparison with an informative summary of different comparison aspects. We found 19,118 comparative sentences from 2,410 pairs of comparable technologies. We released our DiffTech website for public use. Our website attracts over 1800 users and we also receive some positive comments on social media. A walkthrough video of the tool demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixX41DXRNsI Website link: https://difftech.herokuapp.com/
AB - Developers can use different technologies for different software development tasks in their work. However, when faced with several technologies with comparable functionalities, it can be challenging for developers to select the most appropriate one, as trial and error comparisons among such technologies are time-consuming. Instead, developers resort to expert articles, read official documents or ask questions in Q&A sites for technology comparison. However, it is still very opportunistic whether they will get a comprehensive comparison, as online information is often fragmented, contradictory and biased. To overcome these limitations, we propose the DiffTech system that exploits the crowd sourced discussions from Stack Overflow, and assists technology comparison with an informative summary of different comparison aspects. We found 19,118 comparative sentences from 2,410 pairs of comparable technologies. We released our DiffTech website for public use. Our website attracts over 1800 users and we also receive some positive comments on social media. A walkthrough video of the tool demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixX41DXRNsI Website link: https://difftech.herokuapp.com/
KW - Differencing similar technology
KW - NLP
KW - Stack Overflow
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85097159976&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3368089.3417931
DO - 10.1145/3368089.3417931
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85097159976
T3 - ESEC/FSE 2020 - Proceedings of the 28th ACM Joint Meeting European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering
SP - 1576
EP - 1580
BT - ESEC/FSE 2020 - Proceedings of the 28th ACM Joint Meeting European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering
A2 - Devanbu, Prem
A2 - Cohen, Myra
A2 - Zimmermann, Thomas
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 8 November 2020 through 13 November 2020
ER -