Analyzing the quality of responses of Pakistani software developers over stack overflow

Abstract

A number of online Q&A systems have evolved over past few years for developers to collaborate and help each other in various technical issues. However, there is a passive participation of a great number of members over these forums. This paper analyzes the responses of software developers on stack overflow by Pakistani, Indian and US citizens in the past ten years. The data is extracted and analyzed to determine various trends such as the number of questions posed by developers, the number of answers, the number of accepted answers and the ratio of posed answers to the accepted answers. The paper also show the emerging technological trends in various countries.