SOTorrent: Reconstructing and analyzing the evolution of stack overflow posts

• Main Authors: BALTES, Sebastian, DUMANI, Lorik, TREUDE, Christoph, DIEHL, Stephan
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: code snippets; open dataset; software evolution; stack overflow; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8866; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/9869/viewcontent/msr18.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Stack Overflow (SO) is the most popular question-and-answer website for software developers, providing a large amount of code snippets and free-form text on a wide variety of topics. Like other software artifacts, questions and answers on SO evolve over time, for example when bugs in code snippets a...