A Study of the Characteristics of Developers´ Activities in GitHub

Author

Onoue, Saya ; Hata, Hiroki ; Matsumoto, Ken-ichi

Author_Institution

Grad. Sch. of Inf. Sci., Nara Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Nara, Japan

Volume

2

fYear

2013

fDate

2-5 Dec. 2013

Firstpage

7

Lastpage

12

Abstract

What types of developers do active software projects have? This paper presents a study of the characteristics of developers´ activities in open source software development. GitHub, a widely-used hosting service for software development projects, provides APIs for collecting various kinds of GitHub data. To clarify the characteristics of developers´ activities, we used these APIs to investigate GitHub events generated by each developer. Using this information, we categorized developers based on measures such as whether they prefer communication by coding or comments, or whether they are specialists or generalists. Our study indicates that active software projects have various kinds of developers characterized by different types of development activities.

Keywords

application program interfaces; public domain software; software engineering; API; GitHub data; active software projects; open source software development; software development projects; Blogs; Encoding; Gold; Open source software; Privacy; Radar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering Conference (APSEC), 2013 20th Asia-Pacific

Conference_Location

Bangkok

ISSN

1530-1362

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-2143-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APSEC.2013.104

Filename

6754343