What Are the Perception Gaps between FLOSS Developers and SE Researchers? – A case of bug finding research
In recent years, many researchers in the SE community have been devoting considerable efforts to provide FLOSS developers with a means to quickly find and fix various kinds of bugs in FLOSS products such as security and performance bugs. However, it is not exactly sure how FLOSS developers think about bugs to be removed preferentially. Without a full understanding of FLOSS developers’ perceptions of bug finding and fixing, researchers’ efforts might remain far away from FLOSS developers’ needs. In this study, we interview 322 notable GitHub developers about high impact bugs to understand FLOSS developers’ needs for bug finding and fixing, and we manually inspect and classify developers’ answers (bugs) by symptoms and root causes of bugs. As a result, we show that security and breakage bugs are highly crucial for FLOSS developers. We also identify what kinds of high impact bugs should be studied newly by the SE community to help FLOSS developers.
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14:00 30mResearch paper | What Are the Perception Gaps between FLOSS Developers and SE Researchers? – A case of bug finding research OSS 2019 Papers | ||
14:30 30mResearch paper | Does FLOSS in Software Engineering Education narrow the Theory-Practice Gap? A Study Grounded on Students' Perception OSS 2019 Papers Debora Maria Coelho Nascimento Federal University of Sergipe, São Cristovão, Brazil, Christina von Flach Federal University of Bahia, Roberto A. Bittencourt State University of Feira de Santana, Feira de Santana, Brazil | ||
15:00 30mResearch paper | Predicting Popularity of Open Source Projects Using Recurrent Neural Networks OSS 2019 Papers Sefa Eren Sahin Faculty of Computer and Informatics Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Kubilay Karpat Faculty of Computer and Informatics Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Ayse Tosun Istanbul Technical University |