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Within-ecosystem issue linking: a large-scale study of rails

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Bogdan Vasilescu,

Vladimir FilkovAuthors Info & Claims

SoftwareMining 2018: Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Software Mining

Pages 12 - 19

https://doi.org/10.1145/3242887.3242891

Published: 03 September 2018 Publication History

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Social coding facilitates the sharing of ideas within and between projects in an open source ecosystem. Bug fixing and triaging, in particular, are aided by linking issues in one project to potentially related issues within it or in other projects in the ecosystem. Identifying and linking to related issues is in general challenging, and more so across projects. Previous studies, on a limited number of projects have shown that linking to issues within a project associates with faster issue resolution times than cross-project linking. In this paper, we present a mixed methods study of the relationship between the practice of issue linking and issue resolution in the Rails ecosystem of open source projects. Using a qualitative study of issue linking we identify a discrete set of linking outcomes together with their coarse-grained effects on issue resolution. Using quantitative study of patterns in developer linking within and across projects, from a large-scale dataset of issues in Rails and its satellite projects, we find that developers tend to link more cross-project or cross-ecosystem issues over time. Furthermore, using models of issue resolution latency, when controlled for various attributes, we do not find evidence that linking across projects will retard issue resolution, but we do find that it is associated with more discussion.

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