"Not my bug!" and other reasons for software bug report reassignments
Philip J. Guo, Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagappan, Thomas Brendan Murphy · 2011
Bug reporting/fixing is an important social part of the soft-ware development process. The bug-fixing process inher-ently has strong inter-personal dynamics at play, especially in how to find the optimal person to handle a bug report. Bug report reassignments, which are a common part of the bug-fixing process, have rarely been studied.