Supporting the Learning Process of Open Source Novices: An Evaluation of Visualization Tools
Yunrim Park, Carlos Jensen · 2009
to Open Source Software (OSS) projects provides students with opportunities to experience real-world software development processes and practices, including the opportunity to work with large, existing, and complex code-bases and development communities. Working with OSS also poses challenges. In this paper, we look at some of the challenges students may face when learning about and joining an OSS project. We investigate how visualization tools can help streamline the initial learning process, and present results from a controlled experiment.