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Table 6 Attributes for question types characterization

From: Redocumenting APIs with crowd knowledge: a coverage analysis based on question types

Attribute name

Description

QUESTION_MARK*

Frequency of the question mark (“?”) in the

 

question and answer.

QUESTION_HAS_CODE*

Boolean value indicating whether exists

 

source code in the question.

ANSWER_HAS_CODE*

Boolean value indicating whether exists

 

source code in the answer.

QUESTION_HAS_LINK*

Boolean value indicating whether exists link

 

in the question.

ANSWER_HAS_LINK*

Boolean value indicating whether exists link

 

in the answer.

QUESTION_BODY_SIZE

Bytes value of the question size.

ANSWER_BODY_SIZE

Bytes value of the answer size.

QUESTION_CODE_SIZE

Bytes value of the question code size.

ANSWER_CODE_SIZE

Bytes value of the answer code size.

  1. The attributes flagged with “*” were reused from Souza et al. [7]