3 papers
cs.SE2026
Geographic Variation in Stack Overflow Code Quality: Evidence from a Cross-Regional Study of Coding Practices
Elijah Zolduoarrati, Sherlock A. Licorish, Nigel Stanger
Developers frequently reuse Stack Overflow code snippets, yet the quality of these snippets remains unevenly understood, particularly across programming languages and geographic co…
cs.SE2026
Why Do You Contribute to Stack Overflow? Understanding Cross-Cultural Motivations and Usage Patterns before the Age of LLMs
Sherlock A. Licorish, Elijah Zolduoarrati, Tony Savarimuthu +3
Understanding motivations of contributors for participating in community question and answer platforms is crucial for sustaining knowledge-sharing ecosystem, which is necessary to…
cs.SE2025
Predictive Analytics for Collaborators Answers, Code Quality, and Dropout on Stack Overflow
Elijah Zolduoarrati, Sherlock A. Licorish, Nigel Stanger
Previous studies that used data from Stack Overflow to develop predictive models often employed limited benchmarks of 3-5 models or adopted arbitrary selection methods. Despite bei…