In this paper we describe a qualitative investigation of impression formation in an online
distributed software development community with social media functionality. We find that …

Bug reports document unexpected software behaviors experienced by users. To be
effective, they should allow bug triagers to easily understand and reproduce the potential …

Open source software projects often rely on code contributions from a wide variety of
developers to extend the capabilities of their software. Project members evaluate these …

Literature review studies are essential and form the foundation for any type of research.
They serve as the point of departure for those seeking to understand a research topic, as …

Good software engineers are essential to the creation of good software. However, most of
what we know about software-engineering expertise are vague stereotypes, such as' …

Most modern Issue Tracking Systems (ITSs) for open source software (OSS) projects allow
users to add comments to issues. Over time, these comments accumulate into discussion …

Software performance is one of the important qualities that makes software stand out in a
competitive market. However, in earlier work we found that performance bugs take more …

Bug reports are essential software artifacts that describe software bugs, especially in open-
source software. Lately, due to the availability of a large number of bug reports, a …

Social networking tools now allow professionals to post and share their work in online
spaces. These professionals build reputation within a community of practice, often with the …

Very often, source code lacks comments that adequately describe its behavior. In such
situations developers need to infer knowledge from the source code itself or to search for …