DiffTech: A Tool for Differencing Similar Technologies from Question-and-Answer Discussions
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/
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08:30 2mTalk | DiffTech: A Tool for Differencing Similar Technologies from Question-and-Answer Discussions Tool Demos Han Wang , Chunyang Chen Monash University, Australia, Zhenchang Xing Australian National University, Australia, John Grundy Monash University, Australia DOI | ||
08:33 1mTalk | Enhancing Developer Interactions with Programming Screencasts through Accurate Code Extraction Tool Demos Lingfeng Bao Zhejiang University, Shengyi Pan Zhejiang University of Technology, China, Zhenchang Xing Australian National University, Australia, Xin Xia Monash University, David Lo Singapore Management University, Xiaohu Yang Zhejiang University, China DOI | ||
08:35 1mTalk | Interactive, Effort-Aware Library Version Harmonization Research Papers Kaifeng Huang Fudan University, China, Bihuan Chen Fudan University, China, Bowen Shi Fudan University, China, Ying Wang Fudan University, China, Congying Xu Fudan University, China, Xin Peng Fudan University, China DOI | ||
08:37 1mTalk | JITO: A Tool for Just-in-Time Defect Identification and Localization Tool Demos Fangcheng Qiu Zhejiang University, China, Meng Yan Chongqing University, Xin Xia Monash University, Xinyu Wang Zhejiang University, Yuanrui Fan Zhejiang University, Ahmed E. Hassan Queen's University, David Lo Singapore Management University DOI | ||
08:39 1mTalk | Reusing Software Engineering Knowledge from Developer Communication Paper Presentations Camila Costa Silva University of Canterbury | ||
08:41 19mTalk | Conversations on Developer Support 1 Paper Presentations Camila Costa Silva University of Canterbury, Fangcheng Qiu Zhejiang University, China, Han Wang , Kaifeng Huang Fudan University, China, Shengyi Pan Zhejiang University of Technology, China, M: Ayushi Rastogi | ||