Using social network analysis for mining collaboration data in a defect tracking system for risk and vulnerability analysis
Ashish Sureka, Atul Goyal, Ayushi Rastogi · 2011
Open source software projects are characterized as self organizing and dynamic in which volunteers around the world primarily driven by self-motivation (and not necessarily monetary compensation) contribute and collaborate to a software product. In contrast to close source or proprietary software, the organizational structure and task allocation in an open source project setting is unstructured. Software project managers perform risk, threat and vulnerability analysis to gain insights into the organizational structure for de-risking or risk mitigation. For example, it is important for a project manager to have an understanding of critical employees, core team, subject matter experts, sub-groups, leaders and communication bridges.