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
Citation
DATTA, Subhajit; SARKAR, Proshanta; and MAJUMDER, Subhashis.
Developer involvement considered harmful? An empirical examination of Android bug resolution times. (2014). SSE '14: Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Social Software Engineering, Hong Kong, November 17. 45-48.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/5612
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1145/2661685.2661686