Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

11-2014

Abstract

In large scale software development ecosystems, there is a common perception that higher developer involvement leads to faster resolution of bugs. This is based on conjectures around more ``eyeballs" making bugs "shallow" -- whose validity and applicability are not without dispute. In this paper, we posit that the level of developer attention as well as its extent of diversity influence how quickly bugs get resolved. We report results from a study of 1,000+ Android bugs. We find statistically significant evidence that attention and diversity have contrasting relationships with the resolution time of bugs, even after controlling for factors such as interest, importance, dependency etc. Our results can offer helpful insights on team dynamics and project governance.

Keywords

Android, Attention, Diversity, LDA, Social network analysis

Discipline

Databases and Information Systems | Software Engineering

Research Areas

Software and Cyber-Physical Systems

Publication

SSE '14: Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Social Software Engineering, Hong Kong, November 17

First Page

45

Last Page

48

ISBN

9781450332279

Identifier

10.1145/2661685.2661686

Publisher

ACM

City or Country

New York

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1145/2661685.2661686

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