Publication Type
Conference Proceeding Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
9-2017
Abstract
Increasingly, software developers are using a wide array of social collaborative platforms for software development and learning. In this work, we examined the similarities in developer’s interests within and across GitHub and Stack Overflow. Our study finds that developers share common interests in GitHub and Stack Overflow; on average, 39% of the GitHub repositories and Stack Overflow questions that a developer had participated fall in the common interests. Also, developers do share similar interests with other developers who co-participated activities in the two platforms. In particular, developers who co-commit and co-pull-request same GitHub repositories and co-answer same Stack Overflow questions, share more common interests compare to other developers who co-participate in other platform activities.
Keywords
Social Collaborative Platforms, Online Communities
Discipline
Computer Sciences | Software Engineering
Research Areas
Software and Cyber-Physical Systems
Publication
Social informatics: 9th International Conference, SocInfo 2017, Oxford, UK, September 13-15: Proceedings
Volume
10540
First Page
246
Last Page
256
ISBN
9783319672564
Identifier
10.1007/978-3-319-67256-4_19
Publisher
Springer
City or Country
Cham
Citation
LEE, Ka Wei Roy and LO, David.
GitHub and Stack Overflow: Analyzing developer interests across multiple social collaborative platforms. (2017). Social informatics: 9th International Conference, SocInfo 2017, Oxford, UK, September 13-15: Proceedings. 10540, 246-256.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3926
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Authors
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67256-4_19