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Which bug should I fix: helping new developers onboard a new project

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Jianguo Wang,

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CHASE '11: Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1984642.1984661

Published: 21 May 2011 Publication History

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A typical entry point for new developers in an open source project is to contribute a bug fix. However, finding an appropriate bug and an appropriate fix for that bug requires a good understanding of the project, which is nontrivial. Here, we extend Tesseract - an interactive project exploration environment - to allow new developers to search over bug descriptions in a project to quickly identify and explore bugs of interest and their related resources. More specifically, we extended Tesseract with search capabilities that enable synonyms and similar-bugs search over bug descriptions in a bug repository. The goal is to enable users to identify bugs of interest, resources related to that bug, (e.g., related files, contributing developers, communication records), and visually explore the appropriate socio-technical dependencies for the selected bug in an interactive manner. Here we present our search extension to Tesseract.

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Which bug should I fix: helping new developers onboard a new project
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. Development frameworks and environments
      1. Integrated and visual development environments

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DOI:10.1145/1984642

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Robert Bosch Corporate Research, USA
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IBM Research - Brazil, Brazil
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Yvonne Dittrich
IT University of Copenhagan, Denmark
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Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
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Helen Sharp
Open University, UK

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