How do users revise answers on technical Q&A websites? A case study on Stack Overflow

S Wang, TH Chen, AE Hassan - IEEE Transactions on Software …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To ensure the quality of its shared knowledge, Stack Overflow encourages users to revise
answers through a badge system, which is based on quantitative measures (eg, a badge is …

Understanding the factors for fast answers in technical Q&A websites: An empirical study of four stack exchange websites

S Wang, TH Chen, AE Hassan - Empirical Software Engineering, 2018 - Springer
Technical questions and answers (Q&A) websites accumulate a significant amount of
knowledge from users. Developers are especially active on these Q&A websites, since …

Bounties on technical Q&A sites: a case study of Stack Overflow bounties

J Zhou, S Wang, CP Bezemer, AE Hassan - Empirical Software …, 2020 - Springer
Technical question and answer (Q&A) websites provide a platform for developers to
communicate with each other by asking and answering questions. Stack Overflow is the …

Chaff from the wheat: Characterization and modeling of deleted questions on stack overflow

D Correa, A Sureka - Proceedings of the 23rd international conference …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Stack Overflow is the most popular Community based Question Answering (CQA) website
for programmers on the web with 2.05 M users, 5.1 M questions and 9.4 M answers. Stack …

How to ask for technical help? Evidence-based guidelines for writing questions on Stack Overflow

F Calefato, F Lanubile, N Novielli - Information and software technology, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Context The success of Stack Overflow and other community-based question-and-
answer (Q&A) sites depends mainly on the will of their members to answer others' questions …

How do programmers ask and answer questions on the web?(nier track)

C Treude, O Barzilay, MA Storey - … of the 33rd international conference on …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
Question and Answer (Q&A) websites, such as Stack Overflow, use social media to facilitate
knowledge exchange between programmers and fill archives with millions of entries that …

Reading answers on stack overflow: Not enough!

H Zhang, S Wang, TH Chen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Stack Overflow is one of the most active communities for developers to share their
programming knowledge. Answers posted on Stack Overflow help developers solve issues …

Fit or unfit: analysis and prediction of'closed questions' on stack overflow

D Correa, A Sureka - Proceedings of the first ACM conference on Online …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
Stack Overflow is widely regarded as the most popular Community driven Question
Answering (CQA) website for programmers. Questions posted on Stack Overflow which are …

One size does not fit all: A study of badge behavior in stack overflow

S Yanovsky, N Hoernle, O Lev… - Journal of the Association …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Badges are endemic to online interaction sites, from question and answer (Q&A) websites to
ride sharing, as systems for rewarding participants for their contributions. This article studies …

Is it good to be like Wikipedia? Exploring the trade-offs of introducing collaborative editing model to Q&A sites

G Li, H Zhu, T Lu, X Ding, N Gu - … of the 18th ACM conference on …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Online question and answer (Q&A) sites, which are platforms for users to post and answer
questions on a wide range of topics, are becoming large repositories of valuable knowledge …