An empirical study of question discussions on Stack Overflow

W Zhu, H Zhang, AE Hassan, MW Godfrey - Empirical Software …, 2022 - Springer
Stack Overflow provides a means for developers to exchange knowledge. While much
previous research on Stack Overflow has focused on questions and answers (Q&A), recent …

Revisiting reopened bugs in open source software systems

A Tagra, H Zhang, GK Rajbahadur… - Empirical Software …, 2022 - Springer
Reopened bugs can degrade the overall quality of a software system since they require
unnecessary rework by developers. Moreover, reopened bugs also lead to a loss of trust in …

An empirical study on the challenges that developers encounter when developing Apache Spark applications

Z Wang, THP Chen, H Zhang, S Wang - Journal of Systems and Software, 2022 - Elsevier
Apache Spark is one of the most popular big data frameworks that abstract the underlying
distributed computation details. However, even though Spark provides various abstractions …

Towards exploring the code reuse from stack overflow during software development

Y Huang, F Xu, H Zhou, X Chen, X Zhou… - Proceedings of the 30th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
As one of the most well-known programmer Q&A websites, Stack Overflow (ie, SO) is serving
tens of thousands of developers every day. Previous work has shown that many developers …

An exploratory study on the repeatedly shared external links on stack overflow

J Liu, H Zhang, X Xia, D Lo, Y Zou, AE Hassan… - Empirical Software …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract On Stack Overflow, users reuse 11,926,354 external links to share the resources
hosted outside the Stack Overflow website. The external links connect to the existing …

Human values violations in stack overflow: An exploratory study

S Krishtul, M Shahin, HO Obie, H Khalajzadeh… - Proceedings of the 26th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
A growing number of software-intensive systems are being accused of violating or ignoring
human values (eg, privacy, inclusion, and social responsibility), and this poses great …

A first look at information highlighting in stack overflow answers

SS Ahmed, S Wang, H Zhang… - … and Evolution (ICSME …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Technical question and answer (Q&A) sites such as Stack Overflow (SO) have become
increasingly important for software developers to share knowledge and contribute to …

[PDF][PDF] An Empirical Study on Neophytes of Stack Overflow: How Welcoming the Community is towards Them.

A Al Jobair, S Mohammad, ZR Maisha, MJI Mostafa… - ENASE, 2022 - scitepress.org
Stack Overflow (SO) is the most popular question and answers (Q&A) platform for
programmers with a rapidly expanding community of new users. However, the unwelcoming …

Reproducibility challenges and their impacts on technical q&a websites: The practitioners' perspectives

S Mondal, B Roy - Proceedings of the 15th Innovations in Software …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Software developers often submit questions to technical Q&A sites like Stack Overflow (SO)
to resolve their code-level problems. Usually, they include example code segments with …

Time to vote: Temporal clustering of user activity on Stack Overflow

A Geras, G Siudem… - Journal of the Association …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Question‐and‐answer (Q&A) sites improve access to information and ease transfer
of knowledge. In recent years, they have grown in popularity and importance, enabling …