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An investigation of security conversations in stack overflow: Perceptions of security and community involvement

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An investigation of security conversations in stack overflow: Perceptions of security and community involvement. / Lopez, Tamara; Tun, Thein T.; Bandara, Arosha et al.
SEAD '18 Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Security Awareness from Design to Deployment. New York: ACM, 2018. p. 26-32 8472850.

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Lopez, T, Tun, TT, Bandara, A, Levine, M, Nuseibeh, B & Sharp, H 2018, An investigation of security conversations in stack overflow: Perceptions of security and community involvement. in SEAD '18 Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Security Awareness from Design to Deployment., 8472850, ACM, New York, pp. 26-32, 1st ACM/IEEE International Workshop on Security Awareness from Design to Deployment, SEAD 2018, co-located with the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden, 27/05/18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3194707.3194713

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Lopez, T., Tun, T. T., Bandara, A., Levine, M., Nuseibeh, B., & Sharp, H. (2018). An investigation of security conversations in stack overflow: Perceptions of security and community involvement. In SEAD '18 Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Security Awareness from Design to Deployment (pp. 26-32). Article 8472850 ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3194707.3194713

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Lopez T, Tun TT, Bandara A, Levine M, Nuseibeh B, Sharp H. An investigation of security conversations in stack overflow: Perceptions of security and community involvement. In SEAD '18 Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Security Awareness from Design to Deployment. New York: ACM. 2018. p. 26-32. 8472850 doi: 10.1145/3194707.3194713

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Lopez, Tamara ; Tun, Thein T. ; Bandara, Arosha et al. / An investigation of security conversations in stack overflow : Perceptions of security and community involvement. SEAD '18 Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Security Awareness from Design to Deployment. New York : ACM, 2018. pp. 26-32

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abstract = "Developers turn to Stack Overflow and other on-line sources to find solutions to security problems, but little is known about how they engage with and guide one another in these environments or the perceptions of software security this may encourage. This study joins recent calls to understand more about how developers use Internet sources to solve security problems. As a first step, the authors have analyzed a set of questions within the security channel of Stack Overflow. Preliminary findings reveal more about this community of practitioners: who are the askers and commenters, how security questions are asked and how developers frame technical information using social and experience-based perceptions of security.",
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