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Understanding Java Usability by Mining GitHub Repositories

Author Mark J. Lemay

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Mark J. Lemay
  • Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

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Mark J. Lemay. Understanding Java Usability by Mining GitHub Repositories. In 9th Workshop on Evaluation and Usability of Programming Languages and Tools (PLATEAU 2018). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 67, pp. 2:1-2:9, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019)
https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.PLATEAU.2018.2

Abstract

There is a need for better empirical methods in programming language design. This paper addresses that need by demonstrating how, by observing publicly available Java source code, we can infer usage and usability issues with the Java language. In this study, 1,746 GitHub projects were analyzed and some basic usage facts are reported.

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  • Human-centered computing → Empirical studies in HCI
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  • programming languages
  • usability
  • data mining

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