Better Code, Better Sharing: On the Need of Analyzing Jupyter Notebooks (ICSE 2020 - New Ideas and Emerging Results) - ICSE 2020

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Wed 24 June - Thu 16 July 2020

Who

Jiawei Wang, Li Li, Andreas Zeller

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ICSE 2020 New Ideas and Emerging Results

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Wed 8 Jul 2020 15:38 - 15:44 at Baekje - A7-Human Aspects 1 Chair(s): Alexander Serebrenik

Abstract

By bringing together code, text, and examples, Jupyter notebooks have become one of the most popular means to produce scientific results in a productive and reproducible way. As many of the notebook authors are experts in their scientific fields, but laymen with respect to software engineering, one may ask questions on the quality of notebooks and their code. In a preliminary study, we experimentally demonstrate that Jupyter notebooks are inundated with poor quality code, e.g., not respecting recommended coding practices, or containing unused variables and deprecated functions. Considering the education nature of Jupyter notebooks, these poor coding practices, as well as the lacks of quality control, might be propagated into the next generation of developers. Hence, we argue that there is a strong need to programmatically analyze Jupyter notebooks, calling on our community to pay more attention to the reliability of Jupyter notebooks.

Link to Preprint

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.05234.pdf

Jiawei Wang

Monash University

Li Li

Monash University, Australia

Australia

Andreas Zeller

CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

Germany

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	15:00 - 16:00	A7-Human Aspects 1Technical Papers / Journal First / New Ideas and Emerging Results at Baekje Chair(s): Alexander Serebrenik Eindhoven University of Technology

	15:00 8m Talk		Towards a theory of software developer job satisfaction and perceived productivityJ1 Journal First Margaret-Anne Storey University of Victoria, Thomas Zimmermann Microsoft Research, Christian Bird Microsoft Research, Jacek Czerwonka Developer Services, Microsoft, Brendan Murphy Microsoft Research, Eirini Kalliamvakou University of Victoria Pre-print Media Attached
	15:08 6m Talk		Eye of the Mind: Image Processing for Social CodingNIER New Ideas and Emerging Results Maleknaz Nayebi York University Pre-print
	15:14 12m Talk		How Software Practitioners Use Informal Local Meetups to Share Software Engineering KnowledgeTechnical Technical Papers Claire Ingram University of York, Anders Drachen University of York
	15:26 12m Talk		Explaining Pair Programming Session Dynamics from Knowledge GapsTechnical Technical Papers Franz Zieris Freie Universität Berlin, Lutz Prechelt Freie Universität Berlin DOI Pre-print Media Attached
	15:38 6m Talk		Better Code, Better Sharing: On the Need of Analyzing Jupyter NotebooksNIER New Ideas and Emerging Results Jiawei Wang Monash University, Li Li Monash University, Australia, Andreas Zeller CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security Pre-print
	15:44 6m Talk		Stress and Burnout in Open Source: Toward Finding, Understanding, and Mitigating Unhealthy InteractionsNIER New Ideas and Emerging Results Naveen Raman University of Maryland, College Park, Minxuan Cao Carnegie Mellon University, Yulia Tsvetkov Carnegie Mellon University, Christian Kästner Carnegie Mellon University, Bogdan Vasilescu Carnegie Mellon University Pre-print
	15:50 8m Talk		Enabling Good Work Habits in Software Developers through Reflective Goal-SettingJ1 Journal First André N. Meyer University of Zurich, Gail Murphy University of British Columbia, Thomas Zimmermann Microsoft Research, Thomas Fritz University of Zurich Pre-print Media Attached