Unveiling Challenges and Opportunities in Low Code Development Platforms: A StackOverflow Analysis

Edona Elshan, Olivia Bruhin, Niklas Schmidt, Dominik Siemon, Damian Kedziora

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Abstract

As the rapidly expanding digital transformations at multiple organizations require development of growing number of software solutions, low code development platforms (LCDPs) started to be widely used by pretrained business users, in such use-cases as process automation and rapid application development. Our study explores the challenges of LCDPs use for developers, by investigating 30 000 of their posts at one of the most prominent fora StackOverflow. It is conducted with text-mining approaches, primarily Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), aiming to identify challenges for users of LCDPs. As they were from the areas of visualization, third-party integration, database and table management, datatype conversion, programming languages, and file handling, we further discussed them to propose possible enhancements for users of LCDPs.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 57th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences | 2024
EditorsTung X. Bui
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages7269-7279
Number of pages11
ISBN (Electronic)9780998133171
Publication statusPublished - 2024
Event57th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2024 - Honolulu, United States
Duration: 3 Jan 20246 Jan 2024

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Volume57
ISSN (Print)1530-1605

Conference

Conference57th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2024
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityHonolulu
Period3/01/246/01/24

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Keywords

  • Latent Dirichlet Allocation
  • Low Code Development Platforms
  • StackOverflow

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