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Developer Profiles for Recommendation Systems

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Developer profiles are representations that capture the characteristics of a software developer, including software development knowledge, organizational information, and communication networks. In recommendation systems in software engineering, developer profiles can be used for personalizing recommendations and for recommending developers who can assist with a task. This chapter describes techniques for capturing, representing, storing, and using developer profiles.

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Notes

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    Using data from older VCSes requires mapping lines to high-level program elements such as methods. For more information about this step, readers can refer to Zimmermann and Weißgerber [58].

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    Terms are typically tokens from document corpus, stemmed or not depending on the application, after removing stop words and non-alphabetic tokens [30].

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Acknowledgments

We are grateful for the help from the following people and organizations: Christoph Treude helped us greatly improve the structure of the chapter since early on and provided us comments on a previous draft. Ben Steichen acted as a reviewer external to software engineering, provided us with his expert advice on user modeling, and gave us numerous pointers to work in the user modeling community. The editors of this book provided guidance and feedback throughout the whole writing process. Mik Kersten and Yunwen Ye kindly allowed us to reproduce figures from their respective theses. Finally, NSERC and McGill have provided financial support.

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Ying, A.T.T., Robillard, M.P. (2014). Developer Profiles for Recommendation Systems. In: Robillard, M., Maalej, W., Walker, R., Zimmermann, T. (eds) Recommendation Systems in Software Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45135-5_8

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