Abstract
In the open source software (OSS) development environment, a communication time-lag among developers is more likely to happen due to time differences among locations of developers and differences of working hours for OSS development. A means for effective communication among OSS developers has been increasingly demanded in recent years, since an OSS product and its users requires a prompt response to issues such as defects and security vulnerabilities. In this paper, we propose an analysis method for observing the time-lag of communication among developers in an OSS project and then facilitating the communication.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Learn about institutional subscriptionsPreview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Robles, G., Gonzalez-Barahona, J.M.: Geographic location of developers at sourceforge. In: The 2006 international workshop on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2006), pp. 144–150 (2006)
Laredo, J.A., Ranjan, R.: Continuous improvement through iterative development in a multi-geography. In: The 2008 IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE 2008), pp. 232–236 (2008)
Bettenburg, N., Just, S., Schröter, A., Weiss, C., Premraj, R., Zimmermann, T.: What makes a good bug report? In: The 16th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (SIGSOFT 2008/FSE-16), pp. 308–318 (2008)
Colazo, J.A.: Following the sun: Exploring productivity in temporally dispersed teams. In: The Fourteenth Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2008). Paper no. 240 (2008)
Godfrey, M.W., Tu, Q.: Evolution in open source software: A case study. In: 16th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2000), pp. 131–142 (2000)
Herraiz, I., German, D.M., Gonzalez-Barahona, J.M., Robles, G.: Towards a simplification of the bug report form in eclipse. In: The 2008 international Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2008), pp. 145–148 (2008)
Ihara, A., Ohira, M., Matsumoto, K.: An analysis method for improving a bug modification process in open source software development. In: The joint international and annual ERCIM workshops on Principles of Software Evolution and Software Evolution Workshops (IWPSE-Evol 2009), pp. 135–144 (2009)
Kim, S., Pan, K., Whitehead, E.J.: Memories of bug fixes. In: The 14th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering (SIGSOFT 2006/FSE-14), pp. 35–45 (2006)
Kim, S., Zimmermann, T., Whitehead, E.J.: Automatic identification of bug-introducing changes. In: The 21st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2006), pp. 81–90 (2006)
Mockus, A., Fielding, R.T., Herbsleb, J.D.: Two case studies of open source software development: Apache and mozilla. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) 11(3), 309–346 (2002)
Śliwersk, J., Zimmermann, T., Zeller, A.: When do changes induce fixes? In: The 2005 International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2005), pp. 1–5 (2005)
Wang, Y., Guo, D., Shi, H.: Measuring the evolution of open source software systems with their communities. ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes 32(6), Article No.7 (2007)
Yilmaz, C., Williams, C.: An automated model-based debugging approach. In: The twenty-second IEEE/ACM international conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2007), pp. 174–183 (2007)
Carmel, E.: Global software teams: collaborating across borders and time zones. Prentice Hall PTR, Upper Saddle River (1999)
Karolak, D.W.: Global Software Development: Managing Virtual Teams and Environments. Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (1999)
Herbsleb, J.D., Mockus, A., Finholt, T.A., Grinter, R.E.: An empirical study of global software development: distance and speed. In: The 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2001), pp. 81–90 (2001)
Milewski, A.E., Tremaine, M., Egan, R., Zhang, S., Kobler, F., O’Sullivan, P.: Guidelines for effective bridging in global software engineering. In: The 2008 IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE 2008), pp. 23–32 (2008)
Sangwan, R., Bass, M., Mullick, N., Paulish, D.J., Kazmeier, J.: Global Software Development Handbook. Auerbach Series on Applied Software Engineering Series. Auerbach Publications, Boston (2006)
Bird, C., Nagappan, N., Devanbu, P., Gall, H., Murphy, B.: Does distributed development affect software quality? an empirical case study of windows vista. In: The 2009 IEEE 31st International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2009), pp. 518–528 (2009)
Nguyen, T., Wolf, T., Damian, D.: Global software development and delay: Does distance still matter? In: The 2008 IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE 2008), pp. 45–54 (2008)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Ohira, M., Koyama, K., Ihara, A., Matsumoto, S., Kamei, Y., Matsumoto, Ki. (2010). A Time-Lag Analysis for Improving Communication among OSS Developers. In: Nakakoji, K., Murakami, Y., McCready, E. (eds) New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. JSAI-isAI 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6284. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14888-0_13
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14888-0_13
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-14887-3
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-14888-0
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)