Does the duration of rapid release cycles affect the bug handling activity? (SoHeal 2021)

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Thorn Jansen, Zeinab Abou Khalil, Eleni Constantinou, Tom Mens

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SoHeal 2021

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Sat 29 May 2021 15:10 - 15:25 at SoHeal Room - First Session Chair(s): Ahmed Zerouali

Abstract

Software projects are regularly updated with new functionality and bug fixes through so-called releases. In recent years, software projects have been shifting to shorter, rapid release cycles that can affect software development processes such as the bug handling activity. Past research has focused on the impact of switching from traditional to rapid release cycles with respect to bug handling activity, but the duration of fast cycles has not yet been studied. We empirically investigate bugs and releases of 420 open source projects having rapid release cycles to understand the effect of variable and rapid release cycle durations on bug handling activity. We group the releases of these projects into five categories of release cycle durations. For each project, we investigate how the sequence of releases is related to bug handling activity metrics and the effect of the variability of cycle durations on bug fixing. Our results show that there is no statistically significant difference for any of the studied bug handling activity metrics in the presence of variable rapid release cycle durations. These findings indicate that the duration of fast release cycles does not seem to impact bug handling activity.

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https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.08648.pdf

Thorn Jansen

Eindhoven University of Technology

Zeinab Abou Khalil

University of Mons and University of Lille

Eleni Constantinou

Eindhoven University of Technology

Netherlands

Tom Mens

University of Mons

Belgium

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14:40 - 15:55	First SessionSoHeal 2021 at SoHeal Room Chair(s): Ahmed Zerouali Vrije Universiteit Brussel Presentations will be pre-recorded (15mn). Pitches and Q&A will be organized at the end of the session, in sequence for each presentation Pitches by authors (3 min) will include a summary or most important results, and provocative questions to the audience. Q&A (7mn).

14:40 15m Talk		Choice Matters: Contrasting Package Manager User Experience SoHeal 2021 Raula Gaikovina Kula NAIST, Syful Islam Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Bodin Chinthanet Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Christoph Treude University of Adelaide, Takashi Ishio Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Kenichi Matsumoto Nara Institute of Science and Technology Media Attached
14:55 15m Research paper		A Quantitative Assessment of Package Freshness in Linux Distributions SoHeal 2021 Damien Legay University of Mons, Alexandre Decan University of Mons, Tom Mens University of Mons Pre-print Media Attached
15:10 15m Research paper		Does the duration of rapid release cycles affect the bug handling activity? SoHeal 2021 Thorn Jansen Eindhoven University of Technology, Zeinab Abou Khalil University of Mons and University of Lille, Eleni Constantinou Eindhoven University of Technology, Tom Mens University of Mons Pre-print Media Attached
15:25 30m Live Q&A		Pitches and Discussion SoHeal 2021 Media Attached

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Sat 29 May 2021 14:40 - 15:55 at SoHeal Room - First Session Chair(s): Ahmed Zerouali

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