  There exists a large number of research works analyzing questions and answers
on the popular Stack Overflow website. However, other sub-sites of the Stack
Exchange platform are studied rarely. In this paper, we analyze the questions
and answers on the Software Engineering Stack Exchange site that encompasses a
broader set of areas, such as testing or software processes. Topics and
quantities of the questions, historical trends, and the authors' sentiment were
analyzed using downloaded datasets. We found that the asked questions are most
frequently related to database systems, quality assurance, and agile software
development. The most attractive topics were career and teamwork problems, and
the least attractive ones were network programming and software modeling.
Historically, the topic of domain-driven design recorded the highest rise, and
jobs and career the most significant fall. The number of new questions dropped,
while the portion of unanswered ones increased.
