Paper Info
Title
On Relating Technical, Social Factors, and the Introduction of Bugs
Abstract
As collaborative coding environments make it easier to contribute to software projects, the number of developers involved in these projects keeps increasing. This increase makes it more difficult for code reviewers to deal with buggy contributions. Collaborative environments like GitHub provide a rich source of data on developers' contributions. Such data can be used to extract information about developers regarding technical (e.g., their experience) and social (e.g., their interactions) factors. Recent studies analyzed the influence of these factors on different activities of software development. However, there is still room for improvement on the relation between these factors and the introduction of bugs. We present a broader study, including 8 projects from different domains and 6,537 bug reports, on relating five technical, three social factors, and the introduction of bugs. The results indicate that technical and social factors can discriminate between buggy and clean commits. But, the technical factors are more determining than social ones. Particularly, the developers' habits of not following technical contribution norms and the developer's commit bugginess are associated with an increase on commit bugginess. On the other hand, project's establishment, ownership level of developers' commit, and social influence are related to a lower chance of introducing bugs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/SANER48275.2020.9054824
2020 IEEE 27th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
GitHub Mining,Bugs,Version Control System,Social Factors,Technical Factors
Conference
1534-5351
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-7281-5144-1
2
0.36
References 
Authors
16
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Falcão Filipe120.36
Barbosa Caio220.36
Baldoino Fonseca310316.57
Alessandro Garcia42231143.70
Márcio Ribeiro536332.81
Ghey Rohit620.36