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

By Christoph Treude, Ohad Barzilay, Margaret-Anne D. Storey. International Conference on Software Engineering, 2011

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Augmenting API Documentation with Insights from Stack Overflow (2016, background): “On the other hand, “how-to” questions [35] (also referred to as “how-to-do-it” questions [10]) are the most frequent question type on the popular Question and Answer (Q&A) site Stack Overflow, and the answers to these questions have the potential to complement API documentation in terms of concepts,”
What makes a good code example?: A study of programming Q&A in StackOverflow (2012, background): “However, our findings have some overlaps with some other studies [13, 23, 27] which suggests that our results could be generalized to some extent.”
You Get Where You're Looking for: The Impact of Information Sources on Code Security (2016, background): “Much of this research focused on what types of questions are asked, which are most likely to be answered, and who does the asking and answering [5], [6], [27], [38]–[40].”
Stack Overflow Considered Harmful? The Impact of Copy&Paste on Android Application Security (2017, unknown): “[48] report that developer discussion platforms”
What are mobile developers asking about? A large scale study using stack overflow (2015, methodology): “Using Stack Overflow Data A number of studies have used Stack Overflow data to categorize its questions (Treude et al. 2011), identify its design features (Mamykina et al.”