Big code search: a bibliography

K Kim, S Ghatpande, D Kim, X Zhou, K Liu… - ACM Computing …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Code search is an essential task in software development. Developers often search the
internet and other code databases for necessary source code snippets to ease the …

Sotorrent: reconstructing and analyzing the evolution of stack overflow posts

S Baltes, L Dumani, C Treude, S Diehl - Proceedings of the 15th …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
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 …

Toxic code snippets on stack overflow

C Ragkhitwetsagul, J Krinke, M Paixao… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Online code clones are code fragments that are copied from software projects or online
sources to Stack Overflow as examples. Due to an absence of a checking mechanism after …

A large scale study of long-time contributor prediction for github projects

L Bao, X **a, D Lo, GC Murphy - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The continuous contributions made by long time contributors (LTCs) are a key factor
enabling open source software (OSS) projects to be successful and survival. We study …

Sotorrent: Studying the origin, evolution, and usage of stack overflow code snippets

S Baltes, C Treude, S Diehl - 2019 IEEE/ACM 16th …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Stack Overflow (SO) is the most popular question-and-answer website for software
developers, providing a large amount of copyable code snippets. Like other software …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding stack overflow code quality: A recommendation of caution

S Meldrum, SA Licorish, CA Owen… - Science of Computer …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Community Question and Answer (CQA) platforms use the power of online groups
to solve problems, or gain information. While these websites host useful information, it is …

Gamification effects on users' motivation to contribute knowledge in a Portuguese Q&A community

I Oliveira Jordao do Amaral, M Kang - Aslib Journal of Information …, 2021 - emerald.com
Purpose This research investigates the detailed mechanisms of how gamification
affordances influence intrinsic and internalized extrinsic motivation and ultimately improve …

Reusing code from stackoverflow: the effect on technical debt

G Digkas, N Nikolaidis, A Ampatzoglou… - 2019 45th Euromicro …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software reuse is a well-established software engineering process that aims at improving
development productivity. Although reuse can be performed in a systematic way (eg …

An empirical study of code reuse between GitHub and stack overflow during software development

X Chen, F Xu, Y Huang, X Zhou, Z Zheng - Journal of Systems and …, 2024 - Elsevier
With the rise of programming Q&A websites (eg, Stack Overflow) and the open-source
movement, code reuse has become a common phenomenon. Our study aims to provide a …

[PDF][PDF] idev: Enhancing social coding security by cross-platform user identification between github and stack overflow

Y Fan, Y Zhang, S Hou, L Chen, Y Ye, C Shi… - 28th International Joint …, 2019 - par.nsf.gov
As modern social coding platforms such as GitHub and Stack Overflow become increasingly
popular, their potential security risks increase as well (eg, risky or malicious codes could be …