A StackExchange Dataset of Developer Questions Related to Checked-in Secrets in Software Artifacts

Throughout 2021, GitGuardian's monitoring of public GitHub repositories revealed a two-fold increase in the number of secrets (database credentials, API keys, and other credentials) exposed compared to 2020, accumulating more than six million secrets. To our knowledge, the challenges developers face to avoid checked-in secrets are not yet characterized. In our artifact, we provide a dataset containing 779 questions mined from three StackExchange sites asked by developers related to checked-in secrets from three StackExchange sites. In addition, we provide 434 accepted answers provided by the other users of StackExchange to mitigate the challenge of checked-in secrets. An overview of StackExchange artifact Field Name Description Id An unique identifier of the question. Title The title of the question. Body The description of the question. Tags The tags related to the question such as "security", "git" and "key-management". CreationDate The date when the question is posted. Score The count of upvotes in the question. ViewCount The number of users who viewed the question. AnswerCount The total number of answers posted in the question. CommentCount The total number of comments posted in the question. FavouriteCount The total number of users who marked the question as favourite. ClosedDate The date when the community marked the question as closed. URL The url of the question. AcceptedAnswerId The unique identifier of the accepted answer for the question. Answer The accepted answer of the question.2021年全年，GitGuardian（GitGuardian）对公开GitHub（GitHub）仓库的监控数据显示，暴露的敏感凭证（含数据库凭证、API密钥及其他身份凭证）数量较2020年翻倍，累计总量突破600万。据我们所知，当前开发者规避提交至代码仓库的敏感凭证所面临的挑战尚未得到系统性刻画。在本研究制品中，我们提供了一套数据集：该数据集包含从三个StackExchange（StackExchange）站点爬取的779个由开发者提出的、与提交至代码仓库的敏感凭证相关的问题，同时还提供了434条由StackExchange其他用户给出的已采纳回答，用于应对该类挑战。 StackExchange 数据集概览 字段名 描述 Id 问题的唯一标识符 Title 问题的标题 Body 问题的详细描述 Tags 与问题相关的标签，例如"security"、"git"、"key-management" CreationDate 问题的发布日期 Score 问题的获赞总数 ViewCount 浏览该问题的用户总量 AnswerCount 该问题的总回答数 CommentCount 该问题的总评论数 FavouriteCount 标记该问题为收藏的用户总数 ClosedDate 社区将该问题标记为已关闭的日期 URL 该问题的访问链接 AcceptedAnswerId 该问题已采纳回答的唯一标识符 Answer 该问题的已采纳回答内容