Do Developers Introduce Bugs when they do not Communicate? The Case of Eclipse and Mozilla

被引：25

作者：

Bernardi, Mario Luca ^{[1
]}

Canfora, Gerardo ^{[1
]}

Di Lucca, Giuseppe A. ^{[1
]}

Di Penta, Massimiliano ^{[1
]}

Distante, Damiano ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Sannio, Dept Engn RCOST, Benevento, Italy

[2] Unitelma Sapienza Univ, Fac Econ, Rome, Italy

来源：

2012 16TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE AND REENGINEERING (CSMR) | 2012年

关键词：

Bug Management; Developers' Communication; Social Network Analysis; Empirical Study;

D O I：

10.1109/CSMR.2012.24

中图分类号：

TP31 [计算机软件];

学科分类号：

081202 ; 0835 ;

摘要：

Developers working on related artifacts often communicate each other to coordinate their changes and to make others aware of their changes. When such a communication does not occur, this could create misunderstanding and cause the introduction of bugs. This paper investigates how the level of communication between committers relates to their proneness to introduce faults. This is done by identifying committers likely responsible of bug-introducing changes, and comparing-through social network measures-characteristics of their communication with the characteristics of other committers. We report results from a study conducted on bugs from Eclipse and Mozilla, indicating that bug-introducing committers have a higher social importance than other committers, although the communication between themselves is significantly lower than for others.

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