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Title: | Developing an h-index for OSS developers |
Authors: | Capiluppi, A Serebrenik, A Youssef, A |
Issue Date: | 2012 |
Publisher: | IEEE |
Citation: | 9th IEEE Working Conference of Mining Software Repositories, 251 - 254, 2012 |
Abstract: | The public data available in Open Source Software (OSS) repositories has been used for many practical reasons: detecting community structures; identifying key roles among developers; understanding software quality; predicting the arousal of bugs in large OSS systems, and so on; but also to formulate and validate new metrics and proof-of-concepts on general, non-OSS specific, software engineering aspects. One of the results that has not emerged yet from the analysis of OSS repositories is how to help the “career advancement” of developers: given the available data on products and processes used in OSS development, it should be possible to produce measurements to identify and describe a developer, that could be used externally as a measure of recognition and experience. This paper builds on top of the h-index, used in academic contexts, and which is used to determine the recognition of a researcher among her peers. By creating similar indices for OSS (or any) developers, this work could help defining a baseline for measuring and comparing the contributions of OSS developers in an objective, open and reproducible way. |
URI: | http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6224288 http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/7935 |
DOI: | http://www.dx.doi.org/10.1109/MSR.2012.6224288 |
ISSN: | 2160-1852 |
Appears in Collections: | Publications Dept of Computer Science Research Papers |
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