Replication Package for the Paper: Understanding Architecture Erosion: The Practitioners' Perceptive

This is the replication package for the paper: "Understanding Architecture Erosion: The Practitioners' Perceptive". It contains the source code for collecting data from Stack Overflow and our dataset of this study. In the meanwhile, we provide a brief description of the files.

1. Count Results & Search Terms.xlsx
includes the search results, count results of Table 1, and 28 search terms.

2. Dataset from online developer communities.docx
comprises of 80 posts and blogs that discuss architecture erosion (178 pages in MS Word organized by their sources), and their URL links that were collected from several popular online developer communities.

3. Questionnaire of and dataset from surveys.docx
includes an example of the customized emails and 10 formal surveys from the participants.

4. Dataset from Interviews.docx
comprises of 4 interviewees from the participants.

5. Data Labelling & Encoding.mx20
is the results of data labelling and encoding that were analyzed by the MAXQDA tool. We extracted data from the posts, labelled them according to RQs, and encoded the extracted data using Constant Comparison. The file can be opened by MAXQDA 20 or higher versions, which are available at https://www.maxqda.com/ for download. You may also use the free 14-day trial version of MAXQDA 2020, which is available at https://www.maxqda.com/trial for download.

6. SO_Spider.zip
includes the code for data collection and filtering from Stack Overflow.