Empirical Study on the Similarity and Difference between VCS-DSN and BTS-DSN
Mohammed Abdelrahman Aljemabi, Zhongjie Wang · 2017
Most of the developers are collaborating freely as the team works through the Internet, for developing open source software projects without access restriction, playing different tasks including communications and coordination, making various social collaboration in the open source software projects (e.g., Bug/issue report, discussion, code revisions, etc.). All these activities can be recorded into software repositories like GitHub, and used to generate an implicit developer social network (DSN). In this paper, we conduct our empirical study using 50 open source software projects collected from GitHub and construct VCS-DSN and BTS-DSN to investigate the same collaboration between developers in the real world, and to find similarities and differences between them, in addition to the degree of similarity and diversity.