Knowledge about the roles developers play in a software project is crucial to understanding
the project's collaborative dynamics. In practice, developers are often classified according to …

Effective software engineering demands a coordinated effort. Unfortunately, a
comprehensive view on developer coordination is rarely available to support software …

Large open source software projects often have a globally distributed development team.
Studies have shown developer turnover has a significant impact on the project success …

Software developers working on change tasks commonly experience a broad range of
emotions, ranging from happiness all the way to frustration and anger. Research, primarily in …

The concept of the core group of developers is important and often discussed in empirical
studies of FLOSS projects. This paper examines the question," how does one empirically …

Understanding developer productivity is important to deliver software on time and at
reasonable cost. Yet, there are numerous definitions of productivity and, as previous …

Many interesting questions about the software quality of a code base can only be answered
adequately if fine-grained information about the evolution of quality metrics over time and …

A critical factor in work group coordination, communication has been studied extensively.
Yet, we are missing objective evidence of the relationship between successful coordination …

Successful open source communities are constantly looking for new members and helping
them become active developers. A common approach for developer onboarding in open …

A majority of OSS projects fails due to their inability to garner significant and sustained
developer community participation. The problem proliferates when competing projects …