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The Influence of Code Comments on the Perceived Helpfulness of Stack Overflow Posts

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Main Authors:	Figl, Kathrin, Kirchner, Maria, Baltes, Sebastian, Felderer, Michael
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2025
Subjects:	Software Engineering
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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