Contextual Documentation Referencing on Stack Overflow

• Published in: IEEE transactions on software engineering Vol. 48; no. 1; pp. 135 - 149
• Main Authors: Baltes, Sebastian, Treude, Christoph, Robillard, Martin P.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.01.2022; IEEE Computer Society
• Subjects: Community question answering; Context; Documentation; Domains; Electronic publishing; Encyclopedias; hyperlinks; information diffusion; Information dissemination; Internet; Links; Questions; Software; Software development; software documentation; Software engineering; stack overflow

Software engineering is knowledge-intensive and requires software developers to continually search for knowledge, often on community question answering platforms such as Stack Overflow. Such information sharing platforms do not exist in isolation, and part of the evidence that they exist in a broade...