A Developer Recommendation Method Based on Code Quality
Matheus Camilo da Silva, Andre Armstrong Janino Cizotto, Emerson Cabrera Paraíso · 2020
During the development cycle of a project, it is common for software requirements and functionality to change and for code errors to occur. To deal with these unforeseen changes, the artifact known as change request, which is a formal proposal to alter a system, is used. Its assignment is an important step in the development process. Projects can receive a very high number of requests daily, which makes the automation of this process compelling. This work proposes a method for assigning unresolved requests, based on developer's profiles. The proposed method consists of three steps. The first step is to extract code quality metrics, commit data and previously resolved requests, in order to model developers through the mining of repositories. The second step concerns with the selection of the profile of potential developers through the application of natural language processing and information retrieval techniques. And finally, in the third step the appropriate developers are selected based on the quality of their code and the impact of their commits. Results from experimental evaluation show that the method is able to recommend more developers with a positive impact on the repository quality if compared to the iMacPro method.