Paper Info
Title
What Are the Perception Gaps Between FLOSS Developers and SE Researchers? - A Case of Bug Finding Research.
Abstract
In recent years, many researchers in the SE community have been devoting considerable efforts to provide FLOSS developers with a means to quickly find and fix various kinds of bugs in FLOSS products such as security and performance bugs. However, it is not exactly sure how FLOSS developers think about bugs to be removed preferentially. Without a full understanding of FLOSS developers' perceptions of bug finding and fixing, researchers' efforts might remain far away from FLOSS developers' needs. In this study, we interview 322 notable GitHub developers about high impact bugs to understand FLOSS developers' needs for bug finding and fixing, and we manually inspect and classify developers' answers (bugs) by symptoms and root causes of bugs. As a result, we show that security and breakage bugs are highly crucial for FLOSS developers. We also identify what kinds of high impact bugs should be studied newly by the SE community to help FLOSS developers.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/978-3-030-20883-7_5
IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Open source software,High impact bug,Interview
Conference
556
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1868-4238
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yutaro Kashiwa1131.29
Akinori Ihara223819.84
Masao Ohira327520.89