Who Can Maintain This Code?: Assessing the Effectiveness of Repository-Mining Techniques for Identifying Software Maintainers
Guilherme Amaral Avelino, Leonardo Teixeira Passos, Fábio dos Santos Petrillo, Marco Túlio Valente · IEEE Software · 2018
In large and complex systems, identifying developers capable of maintaining a piece of code is an essential task. Repository-mining techniques can help by providing some level of automation; however, whether such techniques effectively identify skilled software maintainers is still unclear.