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Does Latitude Hurt While Longitude Kills? Geographical And Temporal Separation In A Large Scale Software Development Project, Patrick Wagstrom, Subhajit Datta
Does Latitude Hurt While Longitude Kills? Geographical And Temporal Separation In A Large Scale Software Development Project, Patrick Wagstrom, Subhajit Datta
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Distributed software development allows firms to leverage cost advantages and place work near centers of competency. This distribution comes at a cost -- distributed teams face challenges from differing cultures, skill levels, and a lack of shared working hours. In this paper we examine whether and how geographic and temporal separation in a large scale distributed software development influences developer interactions. We mine the work item trackers for a large commercial software project with a globally distributed development team. We examine both the time to respond and the propensity of individuals to respond and find that when taken together, geographic …
How Many Eyeballs Does A Bug Need? An Empirical Validation Of Linus' Law, Subhajit Datta, Proshanta Sarkar, Sutirtha Das, Sonu Sreshtha, Prasanth Lade, Subhashis Majumder
How Many Eyeballs Does A Bug Need? An Empirical Validation Of Linus' Law, Subhajit Datta, Proshanta Sarkar, Sutirtha Das, Sonu Sreshtha, Prasanth Lade, Subhashis Majumder
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Linus’ Law reflects on a key characteristic of open source software development: developers’ tendency to closely work together in the bug resolution process. In this paper we empirically examine Linus’ Law using a data-set of 1,000+ Android bugs, owned by 70+ developers. Our results indicate that encouraging developers to work closely with one another has nuanced implications; while one form of contact may help reduce bug resolution time, another form can have quite the opposite effect. We present statistically significant evidence in support of our results and discuss their relevance at the individual and organizational levels.