Question’s Advisor - A Wizard Interface to Teach Novice Programmers How to Post “Better” Questions in Stack Overflow

José Remígio, Franck Aragão, Cleyton Souza, Evandro Costa, Joseana Fechine

2017

Abstract

Programmers often recur for online communities in order to find help for a current problem that they are facing. However, after sharing a question, its author has no guarantee if he will receive an answer, neither when. Recent studies have found that low quality is one of the top reasons why questions remain unanswered. In this work, we conducted a qualitative study aiming identifying what programmers are looking in a question that they decide to answer. Based on this feedback, we designed a tool to help programmers to write high quality questions. We named the app Questions’ Advisor, due his role of helping but without forcing the user to follow it, and it is available for desktop and mobile clients. We believe it could be very helpful, especially for novice programmers.

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in Harvard Style

Remígio J., Aragão F., Souza C., Costa E. and Fechine J. (2017). Question’s Advisor - A Wizard Interface to Teach Novice Programmers How to Post “Better” Questions in Stack Overflow . In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-247-9, pages 471-478. DOI: 10.5220/0006389504710478


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis17,
author={José Remígio and Franck Aragão and Cleyton Souza and Evandro Costa and Joseana Fechine},
title={Question’s Advisor - A Wizard Interface to Teach Novice Programmers How to Post “Better” Questions in Stack Overflow},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2017},
pages={471-478},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006389504710478},
isbn={978-989-758-247-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - Question’s Advisor - A Wizard Interface to Teach Novice Programmers How to Post “Better” Questions in Stack Overflow
SN - 978-989-758-247-9
AU - Remígio J.
AU - Aragão F.
AU - Souza C.
AU - Costa E.
AU - Fechine J.
PY - 2017
SP - 471
EP - 478
DO - 10.5220/0006389504710478