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. <strong>1. Count Results &amp; Search Terms.xlsx</strong><br> includes the search results, count results of Table 1, and 28 search terms. <strong>2. Dataset from online developer communities.docx</strong><br> 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. <strong>3. Questionnaire of and dataset from surveys.docx</strong><br> includes an example of the customized emails and 10 formal surveys from the participants. <strong>4. Dataset from Interviews.docx</strong><br> comprises of 4 interviewees from the participants. <strong>5. Data Labelling &amp; Encoding.mx20</strong><br> 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. <strong>6. SO_Spider.zip</strong><br> includes the code for data collection and filtering from Stack Overflow.