Contextual documentation referencing on Stack Overflow

• Main Authors: BALTES, Sebastian, TREUDE, Christoph, ROBILLARD, Martin P.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: Community Question Answering; Software Documentation; Information Diffusion; Hyperlinks; Stack Overflow; Databases and Information Systems; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8765; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/9768/viewcontent/bird.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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 isolation, and part of the evidence that they exist in a broade...