ExMinerSOF: Mining Exceptional Information from StackOverflow
Stackoverflow, Exception handling, Eclipse Plug-in.
Along the software development life cycle, the following scenarios are more and more common: when a failure occurs, the developer uses this failure as a search term in Question and Answer (Q&A) services such as Stackoverflow. The developer can either look for ways to better understand the failure or look for solutions to it. When such approach is used the developer moves the his or her working context from the IDE to a Web browser – which can represent more time spent to understand and solve the failure. This work proposes an Eclipse plug-in that proactively inspects the Eclipse development context, looking for API method names. This plugin uses this information to mine Stackoverflow Stack traces in order to identify posts related to potential failures associated to such method. This approaches aims at helping developers to prevent failures or fix them more efficiently.