Analyzing Discussion Forums Threads About Java Programming Language Usage

Resumen

The information generated by means of users interactions in specialized discussion forums can be very useful for other users with similar problems. Our proposal is a process to capture, maintain and analyze existing discussion threads from technical forums. This process can be used to recommend a series of possible solutions in fewer attempts than using traditional multi-purpose Web search engines. This paper presents two case studies that focused on real technical discussion forum threads about problems using the Java programming language. Also, some strategies to classify and relate discussion threads to their corresponding Java document classes are proposed.