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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

Platforms such as Stack Overflow are available for software practitioners to solicit solutions to their challenges and knowledge needs. The practices therein have in recent times however triggered quality related concerns. This is a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Sarah Meldrum , Sherlock A. Licorish , Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu

React is a JavaScript library used to build user interfaces for single-page applications. Although recent studies have shown the popularity and advantages of React in web development, the specific challenges users face remain unknown. Thus,…

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

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

Stack Overflow (SO) is a popular platform among developers seeking advice on various software-related topics, including privacy and security. As for many knowledge-sharing websites, the value of SO depends largely on users' engagement,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Nicolás E. Díaz Ferreyra , Melina Vidoni , Maritta Heisel , Riccardo Scandariato

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

Despite the unarguable importance of Stack Overflow (SO) for the daily work of many software developers and despite existing knowledge about the impact of code duplication on software maintainability, the prevalence and implications of code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Sebastian Baltes , Christoph Treude

Suboptimal code is prevalent in software systems. Developers often write low-quality code due to factors like technical knowledge gaps, insufficient experience, time pressure, management decisions, or personal factors. Once integrated, the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-11 In-on Wiratsin , Chaiyong Ragkhitwetsagul , Matheus Paixao , Denis De Sousa , Pongpop Lapvikai , Peter Haddawy

Stack Overflow is widely regarded as the most popular Community driven Question Answering (CQA) website for programmers. Questions posted on Stack Overflow which are not related to programming topics, are marked as 'closed' by experienced…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-07-30 Denzil Correa , Ashish Sureka

Software engineering is knowledge-intensive and requires software developers to continually search for knowledge, often on community question answering platforms such as Stack Overflow. Such information sharing platforms do not exist in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Sebastian Baltes , Christoph Treude , Martin P. Robillard

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 has become an essential technical resource for developers. However, given the vast amount of knowledge available on Stack Overflow, finding the right information that is relevant for a given task is still challenging,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Akalanka Galappaththi , Sarah Nadi , Christoph Treude

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

Stack Overflow (SO) is the largest Q&A website for developers, providing a huge amount of copyable code snippets. Using these snippets raises various maintenance and legal issues. The SO license requires attribution, i.e., referencing the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Sebastian Baltes , Richard Kiefer , Stephan Diehl

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

There has a been a significant rise in the use of Community Question Answering sites (CQAs) over the last decade owing primarily to their ability to leverage the wisdom of the crowd. Duplicate questions have a crippling effect on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Mihir Kale , Anirudha Rayasam , Radhika Parik , Pranav Dheram

This paper proposes Architectural Pattern Recommender (APR) system which helps in such architecture selection process. Main contribution of this work is in replacing the manual effort required to identify and analyse relevant architectural…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Shipra Sharma , Balwinder Sodhi

Context: Navigating the knowledge of Stack Overflow (SO) remains challenging. To make the posts vivid to users, SO allows users to write and edit posts with Markdown or HTML so that users can leverage various formatting styles (e.g., bold,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Shahla Shaan Ahmed , Shaowei Wang , Yuan Tian , Tse-Hsun , Chen , Haoxiang Zhang

In the rapidly evolving landscape of developer communities, Q&A platforms serve as crucial resources for crowdsourcing developers' knowledge. A notable trend is the increasing use of images to convey complex queries more effectively.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Faiz Ahmed , Suprakash Datta , Maleknaz Nayebi