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More ICSE papers of relevance
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Posted by: stak
Tags: mozilla
Posted on: 2012-09-18 23:28:24
Following on from my last post, I found three more papers in ICSE 2012 that I thought were pretty relevant to stuff we're doing at Mozilla. (Unfortunately not all of the papers are freely available online but I've tried to link to the closest relevant thing that is freely available).
ReBucket: A Method for Clustering Duplicate Crash Reports Based on Call Stack Similarity is pretty much what it sounds like. It's about a way to group crash reports based on their call stacks; their method was tested on a set of 5 Microsoft products' crash report data and found to work better than the other methods they had. Sounds like something that might be applicable to our own crash stats system.
SYMake is a tool to symbolically evaluate Makefiles and find errors in/perform refactoring on them. What I found particularly noteworthy is that it can handle things like renaming variables even if the name is built from multiple substrings, which tends to happen a lot in real-world Makefiles. Unfortunately the tool only runs on Windows so it was too much work for me to try out, but it might come in handy in analyzing our Makefiles as we re-architect our build system.
Finally, What make long term contributors: willingness and opportunity in OSS community was an interesting analysis of contributors to Gnome and Mozilla. In particular, the authors correlated various factors like the type of first contribution and size of peer group with whether or not the contributor became a long-term contributor. However it's not clear to me which of the factors discussed are both (1) under our control and (2) can cause contributors to stick around (since correlation does not necessarily imply causation).
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