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Stack Overflow has been heavily used by software developers as a popular way to seek programming-related information from peers via the internet. The Stack Overflow community recommends users to provide the related code snippet when they…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Zhipeng Gao , Xin Xia , John Grundy , David Lo , Yuan-Fang Li

Software developers often resort to Stack Overflow (SO) to fill their programming needs. Given the abundance of relevant posts, navigating them and comparing different solutions is tedious and time-consuming. Recent work has proposed to…

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On the Stack Overflow (SO) Q&A site, users often request solutions to their code-related problems (e.g., errors, unexpected behavior). Unfortunately, they often miss required code snippets during their question submission, which could…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Saikat Mondal , Mohammad Masudur Rahman , Chanchal K. Roy

The tremendous success of Stack Overflow has accumulated an extensive corpus of software engineering knowledge, thus motivating researchers to propose various solutions for analyzing its content.The performance of such solutions hinges…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Junda He , Zhou Xin , Bowen Xu , Ting Zhang , Kisub Kim , Zhou Yang , Ferdian Thung , Ivana Irsan , David Lo

When drafting question posts for Stack Overflow, developers may not accurately summarize the core problems in the question titles, which can cause these questions to not get timely help. Therefore, improving the quality of question titles…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Shaoyu Yang , Xiang Chen , Ke Liu , Guang Yang , Chi Yu

Stack Overflow (SO) has become an essential resource for software development. Despite its success and prevalence, navigating SO remains a challenge. Ideally, SO users could benefit from highlighted navigational cues that help them decide…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Sarah Nadi , Christoph Treude

For tasks like code synthesis from natural language, code retrieval, and code summarization, data-driven models have shown great promise. However, creating these models require parallel data between natural language (NL) and code with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Pengcheng Yin , Bowen Deng , Edgar Chen , Bogdan Vasilescu , Graham Neubig

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) has been a great source of natural language questions and their code solutions (i.e., question-code pairs), which are critical for many tasks including code retrieval and annotation. In most existing research,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Ziyu Yao , Daniel S. Weld , Wei-Peng Chen , Huan Sun

Stack Overflow is the most popular Q&A website among software developers. As a platform for knowledge sharing and acquisition, the questions posted in Stack Overflow usually contain a code snippet. Stack Overflow relies on users to properly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Kamel Alreshedy , Dhanush Dharmaretnam , Daniel M. German , Venkatesh Srinivasan , T. Aaron Gulliver

The content quality of shared knowledge in Stack Overflow (SO) is crucial in supporting software developers with their programming problems. Thus, SO allows its users to suggest edits to improve the quality of a post (i.e., question and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Saikat Mondal , Gias Uddin , Chanchal Roy

Programming question and answer (Q & A) websites, such as Quora, Stack Overflow, and Yahoo! Answer etc. helps us to understand the programming concepts easily and quickly in a way that has been tested and applied by many software…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-08-17 Ranjitha R. K. , Sanjay Singh

For their attractiveness, comprehensiveness and dynamic coverage of relevant topics, community-based question answering sites such as Stack Overflow heavily rely on the engagement of their communities: Questions on new technologies,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Thi Huyen Nguyen , Tu Nguyen , Tuan-Anh Hoang , Claudia Niederée

Stack Overflow (SO) platform has a huge dataset of questions and answers driven by interactions between users. But the count of unanswered questions is continuously rising. This issue is common across various community Question & Answering…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Abhishek Kumar , Deep Ghadiyali , Sridhar Chimalakonda

Software developers often submit questions to technical Q&A sites like Stack Overflow (SO) to resolve code-level problems. In practice, they include example code snippets with questions to explain the programming issues. Existing research…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Saikat Mondal , Banani Roy

Stack Overflow (SO) is the most popular online Q&A site for developers to share their expertise in solving programming issues. Given multiple answers to certain questions, developers may take the accepted answer, the answer from a person…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Mengsu Chen , Felix Fischer , Na Meng , Xiaoyin Wang , Jens Grossklags

Stack Overflow has been heavily used by software developers to seek programming-related information. More and more developers use Community Question and Answer forums, such as Stack Overflow, to search for code examples of how to accomplish…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Zhipeng Gao , Xin Xia , David Lo , John Grundy , Xindong Zhang , Zhenchang Xing

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

Question-and-answer platforms such as Stack Overflow are an important way for software developers to share and retrieve knowledge. However, reusing poorly understood code can lead to serious problems, such as bugs or security…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Kathrin Figl , Maria Kirchner , Sebastian Baltes , Michael Felderer

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
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