An empirical study on developer interactions in StackOverflow

• Main Authors: WANG, Shaowei, LO, David, JIANG, Lingxiao
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
• Subjects: developer forum mining; latent dirichlet allocation (LDA); developer interaction mining; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1811; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/2810/viewcontent/sac13stackoverflow.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

StackOverflow provides a popular platform where developers post and answer questions. Recently, Treude et al. manually label 385 questions in StackOverflow and group them into 10 categories based on their contents. They also analyze how tags are used in StackOverflow. In this study, we extend their...