Heterogeneous network analysis of developer contribution in bug repositories

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	Heterogeneous network analysis of developer contribution in bug repositories
	Zhang, Wen (1); Wang, Song (1); Yang, Ye (1); Wang, Qing (1)
	2013
会议名称	2013 International Conference on Cloud and Service Computing, CSC 2013
页码	98-105
会议日期	November 4, 2013 - November 6, 2013
会议地点	Beijing, China
收录类别	CPCI ; EI
出版地	IEEE Computer Society, 2001 L Street N.W., Suite 700, Washington, DC 20036-4928, United States
ISSN	2326-5388
ISBN	9780769551579
部门归属	(1) Laboratory for Internet Software Technologies, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; (2) State Key Laboratory of Computer Science, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; (3) State Key Laboratory of Software Engineering of Wuhan University, China; (4) University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
摘要	Using a bug repository, developers contribute to improve the quality of software incrementally by creating and updating bug reports. All the software artifacts in bug repositories are derived from developer contribution. Most prior studies on developer contribution in bug repositories bias on one particular form, e.g., commenting bug reports. However, in real practice of bug repositories, developers participate in and contribute to software projects via multiple ways, e.g., reporting new bugs, reopening incorrectly fixed bugs, commenting unfixed bug reports, and fixing unsolved bugs. In this paper, we exploit recent advances in analysis of heterogeneous network to avoid biased aspects in measuring developer contribution and explore multiple types of developer contribution in bug repositories. Further, we consider leveraging such multiple types of developer contribution to assist a typical prediction problem in bug repositories, i.e., bug triage. Empirical studies on bug repositories of Eclipse and Mozilla show that our approach can provide enriched knowledge of developer contribution to improve the resolution of bug triage. This study strongly suggests using the promising aspects of heterogeneous network can open many actionable insights in analyzing software repositories. © 2013 IEEE.; Using a bug repository, developers contribute to improve the quality of software incrementally by creating and updating bug reports. All the software artifacts in bug repositories are derived from developer contribution. Most prior studies on developer contribution in bug repositories bias on one particular form, e.g., commenting bug reports. However, in real practice of bug repositories, developers participate in and contribute to software projects via multiple ways, e.g., reporting new bugs, reopening incorrectly fixed bugs, commenting unfixed bug reports, and fixing unsolved bugs. In this paper, we exploit recent advances in analysis of heterogeneous network to avoid biased aspects in measuring developer contribution and explore multiple types of developer contribution in bug repositories. Further, we consider leveraging such multiple types of developer contribution to assist a typical prediction problem in bug repositories, i.e., bug triage. Empirical studies on bug repositories of Eclipse and Mozilla show that our approach can provide enriched knowledge of developer contribution to improve the resolution of bug triage. This study strongly suggests using the promising aspects of heterogeneous network can open many actionable insights in analyzing software repositories. © 2013 IEEE.
关键词	Developer Contribution Heterogeneous Network Bug Triage
语种	英语
内容类型	会议论文
URI标识	http://ir.iscas.ac.cn/handle/311060/16546
专题	中国科学院软件研究所
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhang, Wen ,Wang, Song ,Yang, Ye ,et al. Heterogeneous network analysis of developer contribution in bug repositories[C]. IEEE Computer Society, 2001 L Street N.W., Suite 700, Washington, DC 20036-4928, United States,2013:98-105.