Who Can Maintain This Code?: Assessing the Effectiveness of Repository-Mining Techniques for Identifying Software Maintainers

In large and complex systems, identifying developers capable of maintaining a piece of code is an essential task. Repository-mining techniques can help by providing some level of automation; however, whether such techniques effectively identify skilled software maintainers is still unclear.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  IEEE Software

• Publication date

  2019-11-01

• Fields of study

  Computer Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1109/MS.2018.185140155
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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