Developing an h-index for OSS developers

A. Capiluppi; A. Serebrenik; A, Youssef

Developing an h-index for OSS developers

A. Capiluppi, A. Serebrenik, A, Youssef

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

Abstract

The public data available in Open Source Software (OSS) repositories has been used for many practical reasons: detecting community structures; identifying key roles among developers; understanding software quality; predicting the arousal of bugs in large OSS systems, and so on; but also to formulate and validate new metrics and proof-of-concepts on general, non-OSS specific, software engineering aspects. One of the results that has not emerged yet from the analysis of OSS repositories is how to help the "career advancement" of developers: given the available data on products and processes used in OSS development, it should be possible to produce measurements to identify and describe a developer, that could be used externally as a measure of recognition and experience. This paper builds on top of the h-index, used in academic contexts, and which is used to determine the recognition of a researcher among her peers. By creating similar indices for OSS (or any) developers, this work could help defining a baseline for measuring and comparing the contributions of OSS developers in an objective, open and reproducible way.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 9th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2012, Zurich, Switzerland, June 2-3, 2012)
Editors	M. Lanza, M. Di Penta, T. Xie
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages	251-254
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4673-1761-0
Publication status	Published - 2012
Event	9th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2012) - University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland Duration: 2 Jun 2012 → 3 Jun 2012 http://2012.msrconf.org/

Conference

Conference	9th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2012)
Abbreviated title	MSR 2012
Country/Territory	Switzerland
City	Zurich
Period	2/06/12 → 3/06/12
Other	Conference co-located with the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2012)
Internet address	http://2012.msrconf.org/

Cite this

@inproceedings{084d49cb1bdd4829bd5a4a8ead313e3d,

title = "Developing an h-index for OSS developers",

abstract = "The public data available in Open Source Software (OSS) repositories has been used for many practical reasons: detecting community structures; identifying key roles among developers; understanding software quality; predicting the arousal of bugs in large OSS systems, and so on; but also to formulate and validate new metrics and proof-of-concepts on general, non-OSS specific, software engineering aspects. One of the results that has not emerged yet from the analysis of OSS repositories is how to help the {"}career advancement{"} of developers: given the available data on products and processes used in OSS development, it should be possible to produce measurements to identify and describe a developer, that could be used externally as a measure of recognition and experience. This paper builds on top of the h-index, used in academic contexts, and which is used to determine the recognition of a researcher among her peers. By creating similar indices for OSS (or any) developers, this work could help defining a baseline for measuring and comparing the contributions of OSS developers in an objective, open and reproducible way.",

author = "A. Capiluppi and A. Serebrenik and A, Youssef",

year = "2012",

language = "English",

isbn = "978-1-4673-1761-0",

pages = "251--254",

editor = "M. Lanza and {Di Penta}, M. and T. Xie",

booktitle = "Proceedings of the 9th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2012, Zurich, Switzerland, June 2-3, 2012)",

publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers",

address = "United States",

note = "9th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2012), MSR 2012 ; Conference date: 02-06-2012 Through 03-06-2012",

url = "http://2012.msrconf.org/",

}

Capiluppi, A, Serebrenik, A & Youssef, A 2012, Developing an h-index for OSS developers. in M Lanza, M Di Penta & T Xie (eds), Proceedings of the 9th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2012, Zurich, Switzerland, June 2-3, 2012). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, pp. 251-254, 9th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2012), Zurich, Switzerland, 2/06/12.

Developing an h-index for OSS developers. / Capiluppi, A.; Serebrenik, A.; Youssef, A,.
Proceedings of the 9th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2012, Zurich, Switzerland, June 2-3, 2012). ed. / M. Lanza; M. Di Penta; T. Xie. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2012. p. 251-254.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

TY - GEN

T1 - Developing an h-index for OSS developers

AU - Capiluppi, A.

AU - Serebrenik, A.

AU - Youssef, A,

PY - 2012

Y1 - 2012

N2 - The public data available in Open Source Software (OSS) repositories has been used for many practical reasons: detecting community structures; identifying key roles among developers; understanding software quality; predicting the arousal of bugs in large OSS systems, and so on; but also to formulate and validate new metrics and proof-of-concepts on general, non-OSS specific, software engineering aspects. One of the results that has not emerged yet from the analysis of OSS repositories is how to help the "career advancement" of developers: given the available data on products and processes used in OSS development, it should be possible to produce measurements to identify and describe a developer, that could be used externally as a measure of recognition and experience. This paper builds on top of the h-index, used in academic contexts, and which is used to determine the recognition of a researcher among her peers. By creating similar indices for OSS (or any) developers, this work could help defining a baseline for measuring and comparing the contributions of OSS developers in an objective, open and reproducible way.

AB - The public data available in Open Source Software (OSS) repositories has been used for many practical reasons: detecting community structures; identifying key roles among developers; understanding software quality; predicting the arousal of bugs in large OSS systems, and so on; but also to formulate and validate new metrics and proof-of-concepts on general, non-OSS specific, software engineering aspects. One of the results that has not emerged yet from the analysis of OSS repositories is how to help the "career advancement" of developers: given the available data on products and processes used in OSS development, it should be possible to produce measurements to identify and describe a developer, that could be used externally as a measure of recognition and experience. This paper builds on top of the h-index, used in academic contexts, and which is used to determine the recognition of a researcher among her peers. By creating similar indices for OSS (or any) developers, this work could help defining a baseline for measuring and comparing the contributions of OSS developers in an objective, open and reproducible way.

M3 - Conference contribution

SN - 978-1-4673-1761-0

SP - 251

EP - 254

BT - Proceedings of the 9th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2012, Zurich, Switzerland, June 2-3, 2012)

A2 - Lanza, M.

A2 - Di Penta, M.

A2 - Xie, T.

PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

T2 - 9th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2012)

Y2 - 2 June 2012 through 3 June 2012

ER -

Developing an h-index for OSS developers

Abstract

Conference

Fingerprint

Cite this