What Are the Perception Gaps between FLOSS Developers and SE Researchers? – A case of bug finding research
Authors – Yutaro Kashiwa, Akinori Ihara, Masao Ohira
Venue – International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS) 2019
Abstract – In recent years, many researchers in the SE community have been devoting considerable efforts to provide FLOSS developers with a means to quickly find and fix various kinds of bugs in FLOSS products such as security and performance bugs. However, it is not exactly sure how FLOSS developers think about bugs to be removed preferentially. Without a full understanding of FLOSS developers’ perceptions of bug finding and fixing, researchers’ efforts might remain far away from FLOSS developers’ needs. In this study, we interview 322 notable GitHub devel- opers about high impact bugs to understand FLOSS developers’ needs for bug finding and fixing, and we manually inspect and classify devel- opers’ answers (bugs) by symptoms and root causes of bugs. As a result, we show that security and breakage bugs are highly crucial for FLOSS developers. We also identify what kinds of high impact bugs should be studied newly by the SE community to help FLOSS developers.
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柏さん（和歌山大学大平研究室）との共著論文（著者に伊原先生を含む）を国際会議OSS2019（モントリオール，カナダ）で研究発表しました．
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BibTeX
@inproceedings{Kashiwa-OSS-201905,
author = {Yutaro Kashiwa, Akinori Ihara, Masao Ohira},
title = {What Are the Perception Gaps between FLOSS Developers and SE Researchers? – A case of bug finding research},
booktitle = {Proc. of the International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS)},
year = 2019,
month = {May},
}
author = {Yutaro Kashiwa, Akinori Ihara, Masao Ohira},
title = {What Are the Perception Gaps between FLOSS Developers and SE Researchers? – A case of bug finding research},
booktitle = {Proc. of the International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS)},
year = 2019,
month = {May},
}
