Security Expert Recommender in Software Engineering

Software engineering is a complex filed with diverse specialties. By the growth of Internet based applications, information security plays an important role in software development process. Finding expert software engineers who have expertise in information security requires too much effort. Stack Overflow is the largest social Q&A Website in the field of software engineering. Stack Overflow contains developers' posts and answers in different software engineering areas including information security. Security related posts are asked in conjunction with various technologies, programming languages, tools and frameworks. In this paper, the content and metadata of Stack Overflow is analysed to find experts in diverse software engineering security related concepts using information security ontology.