Title :
Apache commits: Social network dataset
Author :
MacLean, Alexander C. ; Knutson, Charles D.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Brigham Young Univ., Provo, UT, USA
Abstract :
Building non-trivial software is a social endeavor. Therefore, understanding the social network of developers is key to the study of software development organizations. We present a graph representation of the commit behavior of developers within the Apache Software Foundation for 2010 and 2011. Relationships between developers in the network represent collaborative commit behavior. Several similarity and summary metrics have been pre-calculated. The data, along with the tools that were used to create it and some further discussion, can be found at: http://sequoia.cs.byu.edu/lab/?page=artifacts/apacheGraphs.
Keywords :
graph theory; groupware; software development management; Apache Software Foundation; collaborative commit behavior; graph representation; similarity metrics; social network dataset; software development organizations; summary metrics; Communities; Computer languages; Conferences; Measurement; Social network services; Software; Vectors;
Conference_Titel :
Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2013 10th IEEE Working Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-0345-0
DOI :
10.1109/MSR.2013.6624020