Developers May Be Getting 50% of Their Documentation From Stack Overflow

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New submitter gameweld writes "Software companies, such as Microsoft, create documentation for millions of topics concerning its APIs, services, and software platforms. Creating this documentation comes at a considerable cost and effort. And after all this effort, much documentation is rarely consulted (citation) and lacking enough examples (citation). A new study suggests that developers are increasingly consulting Stack Overflow and crowd-sourced sites over official documentation, using it as much as 50% of time. How should official documentation be better redesigned? What are the implications of software created from unruly mashups?" http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png (http://twitter.com/home?status=Developers+May+Be+Getting+50%25+of+The ir+Documentation+From+Stack+Overflow%3A+http%3A%2F %2Fbit.ly%2FWH4bg9) http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png (http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org% 2Fstory%2F13%2F03%2F05%2F1755216%2Fdevelopers-may-be-getting-50-of-their-documentation-from-stack-overflow%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfa cebook) http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png (http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/03/05/1755216/developers-may-be-getting-50-of-their-documentation-from-stack-overflow?utm_source=slashdot&utm_medium=googleplus)

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