The term 'crowdsourcing'was initially introduced in 2006 to describe an emerging distributed
problem-solving model by online workers. Since then it has been widely studied and …

Purpose Software developers extensively use stack overflow (SO) for knowledge sharing on
software development. Thus, software engineering researchers have started mining the …

Technical question and answer Q&A platforms, such as Stack Overflow, provide a platform
for users to ask and answer questions about a wide variety of programming topics. These …

When programmers look for how to achieve certain programming tasks, Stack Overflow is a
popular destination in search engine results. Over the years, Stack Overflow has …

Developers increasingly take to the Internet for code snippets to integrate into their
programs. To save developers the time required to switch from their development …

Software Development (SD) is remarkably dynamic and is critically dependent on the
knowledge acquired by the project's software developers as the project progresses …

The promise of recommender systems is to provide intelligent support to developers during
their programming tasks. Such support ranges from suggesting program entities to taking …

Software developers create amazing software that is constantly changing the world in which
we live: Navigation systems make it easy to find hard to find locations, mobile phones help …

While having options could be liberating, too many options could lead to the sub-optimal
solution being chosen. This is not an exception in the software engineering domain …

Developers often search for relevant code examples on the web for their programming tasks.
Unfortunately, they face three major problems. First, they frequently need to read and …