Distributed Software Development (DSD) has recently evolved, resulting in an increase in
the available literature. Organizations now have a tendency to make greater development …

For popular software systems, the number of daily submitted bug reports is high. Triaging
these incoming reports is a time consuming task. Part of the bug triage is the assignment of a …

Open Source Software (OSS) is distributed and maintained collaboratively by developers all
over the world. However, frequent personnel turnover and lack of organizational …

Background After many years of research on software repositories, the knowledge for
building mature, reusable tools that perform data retrieval, storage and basic analytics is …

One question which frequently arises within the context of artifacts stored in a bug tracking
repository is:“who should work on this bug report?” A number of approaches exist to semi …

GitHub is a social coding platform that enables developers to efficiently work on projects,
connect with other developers, collaborate and generally" be seen: by the community. This …

Complex software development projects rely on the contribution of teams of developers, who
are required to collaborate and coordinate their efforts. The productivity of such development …

Context Developer productivity is essential to the success of software development
organizations. Team leaders use developer productivity information for managing tasks in a …

Most empirical studies of open source software repositories focus on the analysis of isolated
projects, or restrict themselves to the study of the relationships between technical artifacts. In …

Context: Onboarding is a process that helps newcomers become integrated members of
their organisation. Successful onboarding programs can result in increased performance in …