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StackOverflow (SO) is a widely used question-and-answer (Q\&A) website forsoftware developers and computer scientists. GitHub is an online developmentplatform used for storing, tracking, and collaborating on software projects.Prior work relates the information mined from both platforms to link useraccounts or compare developers' activities across platforms. However, not muchwork is done to characterize the SO answers reused by GitHub projects. For thispaper, we did an empirical study by mining the SO answers reused by Javaprojects available on GitHub. We created a hybrid approach of clone detection,keyword-based search, and manual inspection, to identify the answer(s) actuallyleveraged by developers. Based on the identified answers, we further studiedtopics of the discussion threads, answer characteristics (e.g., scores, ages,code lengths, and text lengths), and developers' reuse practices.  We observed that most reused answers offer programs to implement specificcoding tasks. Among all analyzed SO discussion threads, the reused answersoften have relatively higher scores, older ages, longer code, and longer textthan unused answers. In only 9% of scenarios (40/430), developers fully copiedanswer code for reuse. In the remaining scenarios, they reused partial code orcreated brand new code from scratch. Our study characterized 130 SO discussionthreads referred to by Java developers in 357 GitHub projects. Our empiricalfindings can guide SO answerers to provide better answers, and shed lights onfuture research related to SO and GitHub.

How Do Java Developers Reuse StackOverflow Answers in Their GitHub Projects?