An empirical study of developers' discussions about security challenges of different programming languages

• Main Authors: CROFT, Roland, XIE, Yongzheng, ZAHEDI, Mansooreh, BABAR, Muhammad Ali, TREUDE, Christoph
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: Software security; Repository mining; Natural language processing; Empirical software engineering; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8782; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/9785/viewcontent/s10664_021_10054_w.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In collaborative software development projects, work items are used as a mechanism to coordinate tasks and track shared development work. In this paper, we explore how “tagging,” a lightweight social computing mechanism, is used to communicate matters of concern in the management of development task...