2017/08/23 by Roy Ka-Wei Lee, David Lo, Lee, Roy Ka-Wei +1
Computer Science · #FOS: Computer and information sciences #H.2.8 #Open Source Software Innovations #Social and Information Networks (cs.SI) #Software Engineering Research #Software Engineering Techniques and Practices
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1708.06860
openalex publication_date 2017/08/23 · openalex created_date 2022/10/01 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
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.