Mining and visualizing developer networks from version control systems

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 24-31

  Jermakovics, Andrejs ^a   Sillitti, Alberto ^a   Succi, Giancarlo ^a  

^a FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN BOLZANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

social networks; software processes; visualization

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENT TEAMS; FILTERING TECHNIQUE; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPER; SOFTWARE PROCESSES; VERSION CONTROL SYSTEM;

CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; VISUALIZATION;

SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

EID: 79959435753     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1984642.1984647     Document Type: Conference Paper

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