%0 Conference Proceedings %B Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 48 %D 2015 %T A Study of Demand-Driven Documentation in Two Open Source Projects %A Andersson, Jessica %A Larsson, Sofia %A Ericsson, Morgan %A Wingkvist, Anna %X We investigate how demand-driven documentation is used by open source projects. Our study relies on questions and answers (i.e., demand-driven documentation) posted to Stack Overflow and focuses on two projects: Apache POI and Fennec (Firefox for Android). We find that the demand-driven documentation provided by respective community is of good quality and contributions are made within an acceptable amount of time. We conclude that demand-driven documentation can be suitable as a primary information source if other resources accompany it, e.g., websites. However, the suitability is closely related to size and activity of the project’s community. We also investigate whether the type of project (e.g., API, application, product, etc.) matters, and find that given the nature of a forum, projects where the intended users are developers have larger and more active communities and are thus better suited for demand-driven documentation. %B Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 48 %I IEEE