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Issue ownership activity in two large software projects

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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Volume 37, Issue 6

Pages 1 - 7

https://doi.org/10.1145/2382756.2382786

Published: 27 November 2012 Publication History

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Issue management is one of the major challenges of software development teams. Balanced workload allocation of developers who are responsible for the maintenance of the software product would impact the long-term reliability of the product. In this paper, we analyse the issue report, issue ownership, and issue resolve patterns of two large software products over a period of time. We use GINI index to estimate the inequalities in issue ownership over time. Our results indicate that a small group of developers tends to take the ownership of a large portion of new issues especially when the active issue count is relatively high in the software development life cycle. We discuss the implications of this trend and propose long-term issue management strategies to deal with them.

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Index Terms

Issue ownership activity in two large software projects
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Project and people management
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development process management
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Software configuration management and version control systems

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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Volume 37, Issue 6

November 2012

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DOI:10.1145/2382756

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