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Software engineering

answers on programming question sites that were once correct but no longer apply to current versions, measured for prevalence and updating.

In software engineering, obsolete answers refers to answers on programming question sites that were once correct but no longer apply to current versions, measured for prevalence and updating. This meaning comes from Zhang (2021) in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.[1]

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current3 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs prevalence3 names · 3 citationsjangle · one construct, three names

References

Zhang, H., Wang, S., Chen, T., Zou, Y., & Hassan, A. E. (2021). An Empirical Study of Obsolete Answers on Stack Overflow. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 47(4), 850-862. https://doi.org/10.1109/tse.2019.2906315

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