IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information
Peer Review Social Network (PeRSoN) in Open Source Projects
Summary :
Software peer review is regarded as one of the most important approaches to preserving software quality. Due to the distributed collaborations in Open Source Software (OSS) development, the review techniques and processes conducted in OSS environment differ from the traditional review method that based on formal face-to-face meetings. Unlike other related works, this study investigates peer review processes of OSS projects from the social perspective: communication and interaction in peer review by using social network analysis (SNA). Moreover, the relationship between peer review contributors and their activities is studied. We propose an approach to evaluating contributors' activeness and social relationship using SNA named Peer Review Social Network (PeRSoN). We evaluate our approach by empirical case study, 326,286 review comments and 1,745 contributors from three representative industrial OSS projects have been extracted and analyzed. The results indicate that the social network structure influences the realistic activeness of contributors significantly. Based on the results, we suggest our approach can support project leaders in assigning review tasks, appointing reviewers and other activities to improve current software processes.
- Publication
- IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E99-D No.3 pp.661-670
- Publication Date
- 2016/03/01
- Publicized
- 2015/11/27
- Online ISSN
- 1745-1361
- DOI
- 10.1587/transinf.2015EDP7261
- Type of Manuscript
- PAPER
- Category
- Software Engineering
Authors
Xin YANG
NAIST
Norihiro YOSHIDA
Nagoya University
Raula GAIKOVINA KULA
Osaka University
Hajimu IIDA
NAIST
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Xin YANG, Norihiro YOSHIDA, Raula GAIKOVINA KULA, Hajimu IIDA, "Peer Review Social Network (PeRSoN) in Open Source Projects" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information,
vol. E99-D, no. 3, pp. 661-670, March 2016, doi: 10.1587/transinf.2015EDP7261.
Abstract: Software peer review is regarded as one of the most important approaches to preserving software quality. Due to the distributed collaborations in Open Source Software (OSS) development, the review techniques and processes conducted in OSS environment differ from the traditional review method that based on formal face-to-face meetings. Unlike other related works, this study investigates peer review processes of OSS projects from the social perspective: communication and interaction in peer review by using social network analysis (SNA). Moreover, the relationship between peer review contributors and their activities is studied. We propose an approach to evaluating contributors' activeness and social relationship using SNA named Peer Review Social Network (PeRSoN). We evaluate our approach by empirical case study, 326,286 review comments and 1,745 contributors from three representative industrial OSS projects have been extracted and analyzed. The results indicate that the social network structure influences the realistic activeness of contributors significantly. Based on the results, we suggest our approach can support project leaders in assigning review tasks, appointing reviewers and other activities to improve current software processes.
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