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Discovering and Studying Collaboration Networks in Software Repositories

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Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement (EuroSPI 2013)

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Collaboration is important to software development processes and collaboration networks help us understand its structure and patterns. A common problem, however, is that these networks are not known and need to be discovered. In this work we study collaboration networks of five projects using an existing method that mines these networks from version control systems. The method is based on Recommender System techniques and finds similar developers by analyzing commits that are made to common files. These similarities are then used to automatically construct the network and it is visualized using a force directed graph layout algorithm. Two of the studied projects come from industry and are closed source while the other three are open source. In each study we learn some of the project’s collaboration form and organization. We also were able to find various aspects of these projects that were previously not known.

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  1. Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Piazza Domenicani 3, 39100, Bolzano-Bozen, Italy

    Andrejs Jermakovics, Alberto Sillitti & Giancarlo Succi

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  1. Regulated Software Research Group, Lero, The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Dundalk, Ireland

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  2. Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

    Rory V. O’Connor

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Jermakovics, A., Sillitti, A., Succi, G. (2013). Discovering and Studying Collaboration Networks in Software Repositories. In: McCaffery, F., O’Connor, R.V., Messnarz, R. (eds) Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement. EuroSPI 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 364. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39179-8_10

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