Examining ownership models in software teams: A systematic literature review and a replication study

UA Koana, QH Le, S Rahman, C Carlson… - Empirical Software …, 2024 - Springer
Effective ownership of software artifacts, particularly code, is crucial for accountability,
knowledge sharing, and code quality enhancement. Researchers have proposed models …

U owns the code that changes and how marginal owners resolve issues slower in low-quality source code

M Borg, A Tornhill, E Mones - … of the 27th International Conference on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
[Context] Accurate time estimation is a critical aspect of predictable software engineering.
Previous work shows that low source code quality increases the uncertainty in issue …

Predicting merge conflicts considering social and technical assets

G Vale, H Costa, S Apel - Empirical Software Engineering, 2024 - Springer
Concurrent contributions to a code base may introduce merge conflicts. Whereas merge
conflicts are easy and common to introduce, resolving them is a difficult, time-consuming …

Studying android app popularity by cross-linking github and google play store

J Businge, M Openja, D Kavaler… - 2019 IEEE 26th …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The incredible success of the mobile App economy has been attracting software developers
hoping for new or repeated success. Surviving in the fierce competitive App market involves …

Governing the commons: code ownership and code-clones in large-scale software development

A Sundelin, J Gonzalez-Huerta, R Torkar… - Empirical Software …, 2025 - Springer
Objective Our objective is to understand how and why different teams introduce technical
debt in the form of code clones as they change different components. Method We collected …

Which type of metrics are useful to deal with class imbalance in software defect prediction?

MM Öztürk - Information and Software Technology, 2017 - Elsevier
Context There are various ways to cope with class imbalance problem which is one of the
main issues of software defect prediction. Sampling algorithms are implemented on both …

Ownership in the hands of accountability at brightsquid: A case study and a developer survey

UA Koana, F Chew, C Carlson, M Nayebi - Proceedings of the 31st ACM …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The COVID− 19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of digital health solutions. This has
presented significant challenges for software development teams to swiftly adjust to the …

Towards Understanding the Impact of Code Modifications on Software Quality Metrics

T Karanikiotis, AL Symeonidis - arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.03953, 2024 - arxiv.org
Context: In the realm of software development, maintaining high software quality is a
persistent challenge. However, this challenge is often impeded by the lack of …

Code authorship and fault-proneness of open-source android applications: An empirical study

J Businge, S Kawuma, E Bainomugisha… - Proceedings of the 13th …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Context: In recent years, many research studies have shown how human factors play a
significant role in the quality of software components. Code authorship metrics have been …

Metrics to quantify software developer experience: a systematic mapping

R Brasil-Silva, FL Siqueira - Proceedings of the 37th ACM/SIGAPP …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The quality of the developers has a direct impact on the software product. Besides the code
they write, an experienced developer may define architectural solutions essential to the …