Harmonising Contributions: Exploring Diversity in Software Engineering through CQA Mining on Stack Overflow – Replication Package

Community question-and-answering platforms dedicated to software engineering, such as Stack Overflow, have assumed indispensable roles in fostering a thriving global knowledge ecosystem. As these platforms suffer from diversity-related issues, investigating the underlying reasons behind such challenges becomes imperative to devise potential intervention strategies.

The proposed study highlights Stack Overflow users’ contribution profiles, both in isolation and relative to various diversity metrics, including GDP and access to electricity. Finally, the study explores whether these contribution profiles extend to the city and state levels.

This replication package complements our study, prompting future scholars to further examine our research process or conduct follow up analyses.