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Platforms such as Stack Overflow are available for software practitioners tosolicit solutions to their challenges and knowledge needs. The practicestherein have in recent times however triggered quality related concerns. Thisis a noteworthy issue when considering that the Stack Overflow platform is usedby numerous software developers. Academic research tends to provide validationfor the practices and processes employed by Stack Overflow and other suchforums. However, previous work did not review the scale of scientific attentionthat is given to this cause. Continuing from our preliminary work, we conducteda Systematic Mapping study involving 265 papers from six relevant databases toaddress this gap. In this work, we explored the level of academic interestStack Overflow has generated, the publication venues that are targeted, thetopics that are studied, approaches used, types of contributions and thequality of the publications that are written about Stack Overflow. Outcomesshow that Stack Overflow has attracted increasing research interest over theyears, with topics relating to both community dynamics and human factors, andtechnical issues. In addition, research studies have been largely evaluative orproposed solutions; however, the latter approach tends to lack validation. Thecontributions of these studies are often techniques or answers to a specificproblem. Evaluating the quality of all studies that were dedicated to softwareprogramming (58 papers), our outcomes show that on average only 58% of thedeveloped quality criteria were met. Notwithstanding that research iscontinually aiming to understand Stack Overflow and other similar communities,further investigations are required to validate such studies and the solutionsthey propose.

Exploring Research Interest in Stack Overflow -- A Systematic Mapping Study and Quality Evaluation