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

• Main Authors: TREUDE, Christoph, BARZILAY, Ohad, STOREY, Margaret-Anne
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2011
• Subjects: q&a; questions; social media; stack overflow; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8857; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/9860/viewcontent/icse11a.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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 contribute to the body of knowledge in software development. Understanding the role of Q&A websites in the documen...