Information Seeking Behavior for Bugs on GitHub: An Information Foraging Perspective
Abim Sedhain, Sandeep Kaur Kuttal · 2022
GitHub is the largest code hosting platform for version control and collaboration. With presence of numerous files and folders within each repository, developers have to sacrifice their time to sift through them during debugging. We investigated developers’ debugging behavior with a think-aloud study involving 12 participants and reported cues and strategies utilized by them.