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.专注于软件工程领域的社区问答平台，例如堆栈溢出（Stack Overflow），在构建繁荣的全球知识生态系统中发挥了不可或缺的重要作用。由于此类平台存在与多样性相关的各类问题，探究这些挑战背后的根本成因，对于制定潜在的干预策略而言至关重要。 本项研究聚焦于堆栈溢出用户的贡献画像，既开展单独分析，也结合包括国内生产总值（GDP）和电力可及性在内的多项多样性指标进行关联研究。最后，本研究还探讨了此类贡献画像是否可推广至城市与州级层面。 本复刻包（replication package）为本研究提供了补充支撑，可助力后续学者进一步复现本研究流程或开展后续拓展分析工作。