Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

acceptedVersion

Publication Date

5-2014

Abstract

Linus’ Law reflects on a key characteristic of open source software development: developers’ tendency to closely work together in the bug resolution process. In this paper we empirically examine Linus’ Law using a data-set of 1,000+ Android bugs, owned by 70+ developers. Our results indicate that encouraging developers to work closely with one another has nuanced implications; while one form of contact may help reduce bug resolution time, another form can have quite the opposite effect. We present statistically significant evidence in support of our results and discuss their relevance at the individual and organizational levels.

Keywords

Android, Betweenness, Connection, Latent Dirichlet Allocation, Linus' Law, Regression, Social Network Analysis

Discipline

Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing | Software Engineering

Research Areas

Information Systems and Management

Publication

Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming 15th International Conference: XP 2014, Rome, Italy, May 26-30: Proceedings

Volume

179

First Page

242

Last Page

250

ISBN

9783319068619

Identifier

10.1007/978-3-319-06862-6_17

Publisher

Springer

City or Country

Cham

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06862-6_17

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