Between JIRA and GitHub: ASFBot and its Influence on Human Comments in Issue Trackers
Tue 24 May 2022 16:24 - 16:32 at Room 315+316 - Blended Technical Session 5 (Miscellaneous) Chair(s): Luís Cruz
In recent years many Open-Source Software (OSS) projects have adopted various automations to automate repetitive tasks, one category of automations adopted by OSS are so-called bots. In previous work, researchers have found that the adoption of bots helps open-source developers merge more pull requests and reduces the need for communication between developers. The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is a foundation that provides open-source software, and it supports the OSS projects that are a member of it. Projects that are a part of the ASF can choose to adopt the ASFBot, this bot automatically creates links between the JIRA issue tracker and pull requests (PRs) on GitHub. In this exploratory case study, we zoom in on the ASF ecosystem, and we seek to understand how the adoption of one specific bot (the ASFBot) impacts the discussions in the issue-trackers of these projects. In this study, we use the SmartShark dataset to investigate whether the ASFBot affects (i)human comments mentioning pull requests (PRs) and fixes in issue comments and (ii) the general human comment rate on issues. We apply a regression discontinuity design (RDD) on nine projects that are members of the ASF and which have been active both before and after the adoption of the ASFBot. Our results indicate (i) a decrease in comments mentioning pull requests and fixes after the bot adoption and (ii) no effect in the number of human comments after the bot adoption. By taking a first step towards understanding how the adoption of ASFBot impacts the issue tracker of projects we can better understand the advantages that the infrastructure of a foundation like ASF provides, and how it affects the commenting behavior of developers in the issue-tracker.
Wed 18 MayDisplayed time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) change
12:00 - 12:50 | Mining ChallengeMining Challenge / Technical Papers at MSR Main room - even hours Chair(s): Steffen Herbold TU Clausthal | ||
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12:04 4mTalk | Between JIRA and GitHub: ASFBot and its Influence on Human Comments in Issue Trackers Mining Challenge Ambarish Moharil Eindhoven University of Technology, Dmitrii Orlov Eindhoven University of Technology, Samar Jameel Eindhoven University of Technology, Tristan Trouwen Eindhoven University of Technology, Nathan Cassee Eindhoven University of Technology, Alexander Serebrenik Eindhoven University of Technology Pre-print | ||
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12:12 4mTalk | On the Co-Occurrence of Refactoring of Test and Source Code Mining Challenge Pre-print Media Attached | ||
12:16 4mTalk | Refactoring Debt: Myth or Reality? An Exploratory Study on the Relationship Between Technical Debt and RefactoringBest Mining Challenge Paper Award Mining Challenge Anthony Peruma Rochester Institute of Technology, Eman Abdullah AlOmar Stevens Institute of Technology, Christian D. Newman Rochester Institute of Technology, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer Rochester Institute of Technology, Ali Ouni ETS Montreal, University of Quebec Pre-print Media Attached | ||
12:20 4mTalk | Studying the Impact of Continuous Delivery Adoption on Bug-Fixing Time in Apache’s Open-Source Projects Mining Challenge Carlos Diego Andrade de Almeida Federal University of Ceará, Diego N. Feijó Federal University of Ceará, Lincoln Rocha Federal University of Ceará Media Attached | ||
12:24 4mTalk | Which bugs are missed in code reviews: An empirical study on SmartSHARK dataset Mining Challenge fatemeh khoshnoud Department of Computer Science and Engineering and IT; School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Shiraz University, Ali Rezaei Nasab Department of Computer Science and Engineering and IT; School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Shiraz University, Zahra Toudeji Department of Computer Science and Engineering and IT; School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Shiraz University, Ashkan Sami Shiraz University | ||
12:28 22mLive Q&A | Discussions and Q&A Technical Papers | ||
Tue 24 MayDisplayed time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) change
15:30 - 17:00 | Blended Technical Session 5 (Miscellaneous) Technical Papers / Data and Tool Showcase Track / Mining Challenge at Room 315+316 Chair(s): Luís Cruz Deflt University of Technology | ||
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15:45 15mTalk | Painting the Landscape of Automotive Software in GitHub Technical Papers Sangeeth Kochanthara Eindhoven University of Technology, Yanja Dajsuren Eindhoven University of Technology, Loek Cleophas Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and Stellenbosch University (SU), Mark van den Brand Eindhoven University of Technology Pre-print Media Attached | ||
16:00 8mTalk | SLNET: A Redistributable Corpus of 3rd-party Simulink Models Data and Tool Showcase Track Sohil Lal Shrestha The University of Texas at Arlington, Shafiul Azam Chowdhury University of Texas at Arlington, Christoph Csallner University of Texas at Arlington DOI Pre-print Media Attached | ||
16:08 8mTalk | SoCCMiner: A Source Code-Comments and Comment-Context Miner Data and Tool Showcase Track Murali Sridharan University of Oulu, Mika Mäntylä University of Oulu, Maëlick Claes University of Oulu, Leevi Rantala University of Oulu Pre-print | ||
16:16 8mTalk | An Exploratory Study on Refactoring Documentation in Issues Handling Mining Challenge Eman Abdullah AlOmar Stevens Institute of Technology, Anthony Peruma Rochester Institute of Technology, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer Rochester Institute of Technology, Christian D. Newman Rochester Institute of Technology, Ali Ouni ETS Montreal, University of Quebec Pre-print | ||
16:24 8mTalk | Between JIRA and GitHub: ASFBot and its Influence on Human Comments in Issue Trackers Mining Challenge Ambarish Moharil Eindhoven University of Technology, Dmitrii Orlov Eindhoven University of Technology, Samar Jameel Eindhoven University of Technology, Tristan Trouwen Eindhoven University of Technology, Nathan Cassee Eindhoven University of Technology, Alexander Serebrenik Eindhoven University of Technology Pre-print | ||
16:32 28mLive Q&A | Discussions and Q&A Technical Papers | ||