Information Security in Software Engineering, Analysis of Developers Communications About Security in Social Q&A Website

By the growth of Internet based applications, security becomes an important part of software application development. Software developers should apply security modules, frameworks and technologies on their applications to reduce the security risks, bugs and vulnerabilities. This paper focuses on data analysis on the software development social Q&A Website content around security to elaborate the current state and trend of security issues in software engineering. For this purpose Stack Overflow data as the largest Q&A is selected to analyze. A framework is proposed for data collection and analysis from Stack Overflow. The result of analysis is presented in different schematic and tabular views and a brief discussion on each result is illustrated.