In recent years there has been a noticeable shift in attention from those who use agile
software development toward lean software development, often labelled as a shift “from …

Discussions is a new feature of GitHub for asking questions or discussing topics outside of
specific Issues or Pull Requests. Before being available to all projects in December 2020, it …

Stack Overflow accumulates an enormous amount of software engineering knowledge.
However, as time passes, certain knowledge in answers may become obsolete. Such …

Understanding code is challenging, especially when working in new and complex
development environments. Code comments and documentation can help, but are typically …

Stack Overflow hosts millions of solutions that aim to solve developers' programming issues.
In this crowdsourced question answering process, Stack Overflow becomes a code hosting …

Stack Overflow is one of the most active communities for developers to share their
programming knowledge. Answers posted on Stack Overflow help developers solve issues …

Stack Overflow incentive system awards users with reputation scores to ensure quality. The
decentralized nature of the forum may make the incentive system prone to manipulation …

In Stack Overflow, developers may not clarify and summarize the critical problems in the
question titles due to a lack of domain knowledge or poor writing skills. Previous studies …

Stack Overflow provides a means for developers to exchange knowledge. While much
previous research on Stack Overflow has focused on questions and answers (Q&A), recent …

Many Stack Overflow answers have associated informative comments that can strengthen
them and assist developers. A prior study found that comments can provide additional …