What makes a good code example?: A study of programming Q&A in StackOverflow

By Seyed Mehdi Nasehi, Jonathan Sillito, Frank Maurer, Chris Burns. International Conference on Smart Multimedia, 2012

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Subfields: Computer Science Applications, Information Systems

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What are mobile developers asking about? A large scale study using stack overflow (2015, background): “Nasehi et al. (2012) investigate what makes an effective code example through a qualitative analysis of Stack Overflow posts.”
An Empirical Study of C++ Vulnerabilities in Crowd-Sourced Code Examples (2019, background): “Sharing code snippets and code examples is also a common learning practice [6].”
Parameter-free probabilistic API mining across GitHub (2015, background): “Although previous work has explored what it means for a single API example to be useful [42, 34], there seems to be much less work about what it means for a set of examples to be useful, and how well example directories in popular projects reﬂect all of the actual common uses of an API.”
StaQC: A Systematically Mined Question-Code Dataset from Stack Overflow (2018, methodology): “We follow [12, 13, 32] to categorize SO questions into 5 classes but only focus on the “how-to-do-it” type (Section 2).”
Parameter-Free Probabilistic API Mining at GitHub Scale (2015, background): “Although previous work has explored what it means for a single API example to be useful [38, 30], there seems to be”
An empirical study on TensorFlow program bugs (2018, result): “…of our dataset is similar to other existing studies that require manual inspection, e.g., Jin et al. conducted a study of performance bugs and inspected 109 performance bugs [19], and Nasehi et al. conducted a study on what makes a good code example and analyzed 163 StackOver ow QA pages [26].”