Understanding stack overflow code fragments

• Main Authors: TREUDE, Christoph, ROBILLARD, Martin P.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• Subjects: Java; Organizations; Programming; Clutter; Software; Data collection; Databases and Information Systems; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8876; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/9879/viewcontent/icsme17a.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Code fragments posted in answers on Q&A forums can form an important source of developer knowledge. However, effective reuse of code fragments found online often requires information other than the code fragment alone. We report on the results of a survey-based study to investigate to what exten...