NDLI: StackOverflow and GitHub: Associations between Software Development and Crowdsourced Knowledge

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Vasilescu, B. Filkov, V. Serebrenik, A.
Copyright Year	2013
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Math & Comput. Sci., Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Eindhoven, Netherlands (Vasilescu, B.; Serebrenik, A.) \|\| Comput. Sci. Dept., UC Davis, Davis, CA, USA (Filkov, V.)
Abstract	Stack Overflow is a popular on-line programming question and answer community providing its participants with rapid access to knowledge and expertise of their peers, especially benefitting coders. Despite the popularity of Stack Overflow, its role in the work cycle of open-source developers is yet to be understood: on the one hand, participation in it has the potential to increase the knowledge of individual developers thus improving and speeding up the development process. On the other hand, participation in Stack Overflow may interrupt the regular working rhythm of the developer, hence also possibly slow down the development process. In this paper we investigate the interplay between Stack Overflow activities and the development process, reflected by code changes committed to the largest social coding repository, GitHub. Our study shows that active GitHub committers ask fewer questions and provide more answers than others. Moreover, we observe that active Stack Overflow askers distribute their work in a less uniform way than developers that do not ask questions. Finally, we show that despite the interruptions incurred, the Stack Overflow activity rate correlates with the code changing activity in GitHub.
Starting Page	188
Ending Page	195
File Size	600779
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9780769551371
DOI	10.1109/SocialCom.2013.35
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2013-09-08
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Productivity Crowdsourced knowledge Software development Communities Merging Social media Rhythm Software Electronic mail Indexes
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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