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When programmers look for how to achieve certain programming tasks, Stack Overflow is a popular destination in search engine results. Over the years, Stack Overflow has accumulated an impressive knowledge base of snippets of code that are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-05-04 Di Yang , Pedro Martins , Vaibhav Saini , Cristina Lopes

We propose a framework to mine API usage scenarios from Stack Overflow. Each task consists of a code example, the task description, and the reactions of developers towards the code example. First, we present an algorithm to automatically…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Gias Uddin , Foutse Khomh , Chanchal K Roy

Recently, automatic code comment generation is proposed to facilitate program comprehension. Existing code comment generation techniques focus on describing the functionality of the source code. However, there are other aspects such as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Mohammad Masudur Rahman , Chanchal K. Roy , Iman Keivanloo

Community Question Answering is the field of computational linguistics that deals with problems derived from the questions and answers posted to websites such as Quora or Stack Overflow. Among some of these problems we find the issue of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Lucas Valentin

Code maintenance data sets typically consist of a before and after version of the code that contains the improvement or fix. Such data sets are important for software engineering support tools related to code maintenance, such as program…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Henry Tang , Sarah Nadi

Programmers often use Q&A sites (e.g., Stack Overflow) to understand a root cause of program bugs. Runtime exceptions is one of such important class of bugs that is actively discussed on Stack Overflow. However, it may be difficult for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Yusuke Kimura , Takumi Akazaki , Shinji Kikuchi , Sonal Mahajan , Mukul R. Prasad

Norms are behavioral expectations in communities. Online communities are also expected to abide by the rules and regulations that are expressed in the code of conduct of a system. Even though community authorities continuously prompt their…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Jithin Cheriyan , Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu , Stephen Cranefield

Stack Overflow and other similar forums are used commonly by developers to seek answers for their software development as well as privacy-related concerns. Recently, ChatGPT has been used as an alternative to generate code or produce…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Zack Delile , Sean Radel , Joe Godinez , Garrett Engstrom , Theo Brucker , Kenzie Young , Sepideh Ghanavati

The choice of programming language is a very important decision as it not only affects the performance and maintainability of the software but also dictates the talent pool and community support available. To better understand the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Samarth Tambad , Rohit Nandwani , Suzanne K. McIntosh

In this paper we presents results of research about elderly users of Stack Overflow (Question and Answer portal for programmers). They have different roles, different main activities and different habits. They are an important part of the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-07-05 Grzegorz Kowalik , Radoslaw Nielek

On Stack Overflow, developers can not only browse question posts to solve their programming problems but also gain expertise from the question posts to help improve their programming skills. Therefore, improving the quality of question…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Ke Liu , Guang Yang , Xiang Chen , Chi Yu

Question and answer (Q&A) forums contain valuable information regarding software reuse, but they can be challenging to analyse due to their unstructured free text. Here we introduce a new approach (LANLAN), using word embeddings and machine…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Matthew T. Patrick

Since programming concepts do not match their syntactic representations, code search is a very tedious task. For instance in Java or C, array doesn't match [], so using "array" as a query, one cannot find what they are looking for. Often…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Deepak Thukral , Darvesh Punia

Question answering platforms, such as Stack Overflow, have impacted substantially how developers search for solutions for their programming problems. The crowd knowledge content available from such platforms has also been used to leverage…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Liliane do Nascimento Vale , Marcelo de Almeida Maia

Stack Overflow is a prominent Q and A forum, supporting developers in seeking suitable resources on programming-related matters. Having high-quality question titles is an effective means to attract developers' attention. Unfortunately, this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Duc Anh Le , Anh M. T. Bui , Phuong T. Nguyen , Davide Di Ruscio

Stack Overflow (SO) is the most popular question-and-answer website for software developers, providing a large amount of copyable code snippets. Like other software artifacts, code on SO evolves over time, for example when bugs are fixed or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Sebastian Baltes , Christoph Treude , Stephan Diehl

With the increase in acceptance of open source platforms for knowledge sharing, Question and Answer (Q\&A) websites such as Stack Overflow have become increasingly popular in the programming domain. Many novice programmers visit Stack…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Akhila Sri Manasa Venigalla , Sridhar Chimalakonda

Stack Overflow is often viewed as the most influential Software Question Answer (SQA) website with millions of programming-related questions and answers. Tags play a critical role in efficiently structuring the contents in Stack Overflow…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Junda He , Bowen Xu , Zhou Yang , DongGyun Han , Chengran Yang , David Lo

Code search and comprehension have become more difficult in recent years due to the rapid expansion of available source code. Current tools lack a way to label arbitrary code at scale while maintaining up-to-date representations of new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Ben Gelman , Bryan Hoyle , Jessica Moore , Joshua Saxe , David Slater

Quantum computing (QC) is increasingly transitioning toward practical and industrial adoption, highlighting the need to understand how developers engage with quantum technologies. In this study, we analyze 1,404 Stack Overflow posts related…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Maryam Tavassoli Sabzevari , Arif Ali Khan