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Computational notebooks have gained widespread adoption among researchers from academia and industry as they support reproducible science. These notebooks allow users to combine code, text, and visualizations for easy sharing of experiments…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Sheeba Samuel , Birgitta König-Ries

Despite the widespread adoption of computational notebooks, little is known about best practices for their usage in collaborative contexts. In this paper, we fill this gap by eliciting a catalog of best practices for collaborative data…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Luigi Quaranta , Fabio Calefato , Filippo Lanubile

Software developers often look for solutions to their code-level problems using the Stack Overflow Q&A website. To receive help, developers frequently submit questions containing sample code segments and the description of the programming…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Saikat Mondal , Mohammad Masudur Rahman , Chanchal K. Roy , Kevin Schneider

Online code clones are code fragments that are copied from software projects or online sources to Stack Overflow as examples. Due to an absence of a checking mechanism after the code has been copied to Stack Overflow, they can become toxic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Chaiyong Ragkhitwetsagul , Jens Krinke , Matheus Paixao , Giuseppe Bianco , Rocco Oliveto

Computational reproducibility refers to obtaining consistent results when rerunning an experiment. Jupyter Notebook, a web-based computational notebook application, facilitates running, publishing, and sharing computational experiments…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-30 A S M Shahadat Hossain , Colin Brown , David Koop , Tanu Malik

Stack Overflow has been heavily used by software developers to seek programming-related information. More and more developers use Community Question and Answer forums, such as Stack Overflow, to search for code examples of how to accomplish…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Zhipeng Gao , Xin Xia , David Lo , John Grundy , Xindong Zhang , Zhenchang Xing

An important goal for programmers is to minimize cost of identifying and correcting defects in source code. Code review is commonly used for identifying programming defects. However, manual code review has some shortcomings: a) it is time…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Balwinder Sodhi , Shipra Sharma

Nowadays, numerous industries have exceptional demand for skills in data science, such as data analysis, data mining, and machine learning. The computational notebook (e.g., Jupyter Notebook) is a well-known data science tool adopted in…

When programmers look for how to achieve certain programming tasks, Stack Overflow is a popular destination in search engine results. Over the years, Stack Overflow has accumulated an impressive knowledge base of snippets of code that are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-05-04 Di Yang , Pedro Martins , Vaibhav Saini , Cristina Lopes

Jupyter Notebooks are an enormously popular tool for creating and narrating computational research projects. They also have enormous potential for creating reproducible scientific research artifacts. Capturing the complete state of a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Dimuthu Wannipurage , Suresh Marru , Marlon Pierce

Computational notebooks are intended to prioritize the needs of scientists, but little is known about how scientists interact with notebooks, what requirements drive scientists' software development processes, or what tactics scientists use…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Ruanqianqian Huang , Savitha Ravi , Michael He , Boyu Tian , Sorin Lerner , Michael Coblenz

Computational notebooks are the primary coding tools for data scientists, but their code quality remains understudied and often poor. Given the importance of maintainability and reusability, enhancing code understandability is essential.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Mojtaba Mostafavi Ghahfarokhi , Alireza Asadi , Arash Asgari , Bardia Mohammadi , Abbas Heydarnoori , Masih Beigi Rizi

We study the impact of Stack Overflow code evolution on the stability of prior research findings derived from Stack Overflow data and provide recommendations for future studies. We systematically reviewed papers published between 2005--2023…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Alfusainey Jallow , Sven Bugiel

Academic trade requires juggling multiple variants of the same content published in different formats: manuscripts, presentations, posters and computational notebooks. The need to track versions to accommodate for the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Kacper Sokol , Peter Flach

Software developers often reuse code from online sources such as Stack Overflow within their projects. However, the process of searching for code snippets and integrating them within existing source code can be tedious. In order to improve…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Brittany Reid , Christoph Treude , Markus Wagner

Jupyter notebooks represent a unique format for programming - a combination of code and Markdown with rich formatting, separated into individual cells. We propose to perceive a Jupyter Notebook cell as a simplified and raw version of a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Sergey Titov , Yaroslav Golubev , Timofey Bryksin

As scientific work becomes more computational and data intensive, research processes and results become more difficult to interpret and reproduce. In this poster, we show how the Jupyter notebook, a tool originally designed as a free…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Bernadette M. Boscoe , Irene V. Pasquetto , Milena S. Golshan , Christine L. Borgman

Background: Sub-optimal code is prevalent in software systems. Developers may write low-quality code due to many reasons, such as lack of technical knowledge, lack of experience, time pressure, management decisions, and even unhappiness.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Chaiyong Ragkhitwetsagul , Matheus Paixao

As a representative literate programming platform, Jupyter is widely adopted by developers, data analysts, and researchers for replication, data sharing, documentation, interactive data visualization, and more. Understanding the bugs in the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Yutian Tang , Hongchen Cao , Yuxi Chen , David Lo

Interactive notebooks, such as Jupyter, have revolutionized the field of data science by providing an integrated environment for data, code, and documentation. However, their adoption by robotics researchers and model developers has been…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Rolando Garcia