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How Do Users Answer Matlab Questions On Q&A Sites? A Case Study On Stack Overflow And Mathworks, Mahshid Naghashzadeh, Amir Hagshenas, Ashkan Sami, David Lo Mar 2021

How Do Users Answer Matlab Questions On Q&A Sites? A Case Study On Stack Overflow And Mathworks, Mahshid Naghashzadeh, Amir Hagshenas, Ashkan Sami, David Lo

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MATLAB is an engineering programming language with various toolboxes that has a dedicated Question and Answer (Q&A) platform on the MathWorks website, which is similar to Stack Overflow (SO). Moreover, some MATLAB users ask their questions on SO. This paper aims to compare these two Q&A platforms to see what kind of questions are asked and how developers answer these questions in each platform. The result of our analysis on 80,382 MATLAB questions on SO and 266,367 questions on MathWorks show that MATLAB questions on topics ranging from the MATLAB software installation to questions related to programming received high votes …