Recommending people in developers' collaboration network

Didi Surian; Nian Liu; David Lo; Hanghang Tong; Ee Peng Lim; Christos Faloutsos

doi:10.1109/WCRE.2011.53

Recommending people in developers' collaboration network

Didi Surian^*, Nian Liu, David Lo, Hanghang Tong, Ee Peng Lim, Christos Faloutsos

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Abstract

Many software developments involve collaborations of developers across the globe. This is true for both open-source and closed-source development efforts. Developers collaborate on different projects of various types. As with any other teamwork endeavors, finding compatibility among members in a development team is helpful towards the realization of the team's goal. Compatible members tend to share similar programming style and naming strategy, communicate well with one another, etc. However, finding the right person to work with is not an easy task. In this work, we extract information available from Source forge. Net, the largest database of open source software, and build developer collaboration network comprising of information on developers, projects, and project properties. Based on an input developer, we then recommend a list of top developers that are most compatible based on their programming language skills, past projects and project categories they have worked on before, via a random walk with restart procedure. Our quantitative and qualitative experiments show that we are able to recommend reasonable developer candidates from snapshots of Source forge. Net consisting of tens of thousands of developers and projects, and hundreds of project properties.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 18th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE 2011
Editors	Martin Pinzger, Denys Poshyvanyk, Jim Buckley
Place of Publication	Limerick, Ireland
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages	379-388
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	9780769545820
ISBN (Print)	9781457719486
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/WCRE.2011.53
Publication status	Published - 2011
Externally published	Yes
Event	18th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE 2011 - Limerick, Ireland Duration: 17 Oct 2011 → 20 Oct 2011

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Other	18th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE 2011
Country/Territory	Ireland
City	Limerick
Period	17/10/11 → 20/10/11

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Surian, D., Liu, N., Lo, D., Tong, H., Lim, E. P., & Faloutsos, C. (2011). Recommending people in developers' collaboration network. In M. Pinzger, D. Poshyvanyk, & J. Buckley (Eds.), Proceedings - 18th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE 2011 (pp. 379-388). [6079864] Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). https://doi.org/10.1109/WCRE.2011.53

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Surian, D, Liu, N, Lo, D, Tong, H, Lim, EP & Faloutsos, C 2011, Recommending people in developers' collaboration network. in M Pinzger, D Poshyvanyk & J Buckley (eds), Proceedings - 18th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE 2011., 6079864, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Limerick, Ireland, pp. 379-388, 18th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE 2011, Limerick, Ireland, 17/10/11. https://doi.org/10.1109/WCRE.2011.53

Recommending people in developers' collaboration network. / Surian, Didi; Liu, Nian; Lo, David et al.
Proceedings - 18th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE 2011. ed. / Martin Pinzger; Denys Poshyvanyk; Jim Buckley. Limerick, Ireland: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2011. p. 379-388 6079864.

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