Mining and relating design contexts and design patterns from Stack Overflow

Design contexts are factors that shape a design, and whilst they are recognised by developers, they are typically tacit. Unlike software requirements, software engineering researchers have paid little attention to design contexts and there is little or no systematic research on how design contexts i...

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Published in:Empirical software engineering : an international journal 2022-01, Vol.27 (1), Article 8
Main Authors: Wijerathna, Laksri, Aleti, Aldeida, Bi, Tingting, Tang, Antony
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Automation
Collective Knowledge in Software Engineering
Communication
Compilers
Computer Science
Context
Design factors
Empirical analysis
Interpreters
Knowledge
Mining
Product design
Programming Languages
Research methodology
Software engineering
Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems
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Summary:Design contexts are factors that shape a design, and whilst they are recognised by developers, they are typically tacit. Unlike software requirements, software engineering researchers have paid little attention to design contexts and there is little or no systematic research on how design contexts influence design. In this paper, we conduct an empirical investigation using Stack Overflow with the aim of mining design context knowledge that is related to design patterns. We chose to study design patterns because they are clear and identifiable. In this work, we develop a new taxonomy of design context terms related to design patterns. We introduce a new automated mining approach, DPC Miner, for mining design context knowledge from Stack Overflow. Finally, we analyse the Stack Overflow posts and present how design context impacts decisions about design patterns in practice.
ISSN:1382-3256
1573-7616
DOI:10.1007/s10664-021-10034-0