A field study of the software design process for large systems
Communications of the ACM
Coordination in software development
Communications of the ACM
The mythical man-month (anniversary ed.)
The mythical man-month (anniversary ed.)
A critical point for random graphs with a given degree sequence
Random Graphs 93 Proceedings of the sixth international seminar on Random graphs and probabilistic methods in combinatorics and computer science
The role of knowledge in software development
Communications of the ACM
Expertise recommender: a flexible recommendation system and architecture
CSCW '00 Proceedings of the 2000 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
The Confounding Effect of Class Size on the Validity of Object-Oriented Metrics
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
On the Job Learning in the Software Industry: Corporate Culture and the Acquisition of Knowledge
On the Job Learning in the Software Industry: Corporate Culture and the Acquisition of Knowledge
Expertise browser: a quantitative approach to identifying expertise
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Software Engineering
Code Churn: A Measure for Estimating the Impact of Code Change
ICSM '98 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance
ISSTA '04 Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Software testing and analysis
Use of relative code churn measures to predict system defect density
Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Software engineering
Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change (2nd Edition)
Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change (2nd Edition)
CSCW '06 Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Does a programmer's activity indicate knowledge of code?
Proceedings of the the 6th joint meeting of the European software engineering conference and the ACM SIGSOFT symposium on The foundations of software engineering
The influence of organizational structure on software quality: an empirical case study
Proceedings of the 30th international conference on Software engineering
Empirical Software Engineering
Can developer-module networks predict failures?
Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Learning from Experience in Software Development: A Multilevel Analysis
Management Science
Succession: Measuring transfer of code and developer productivity
ICSE '09 Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Software Engineering
Does distributed development affect software quality? An empirical case study of Windows Vista
ICSE '09 Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Software Engineering
Secure open source collaboration: an empirical study of linus' law
Proceedings of the 16th ACM conference on Computer and communications security
Putting It All Together: Using Socio-technical Networks to Predict Failures
ISSRE '09 Proceedings of the 2009 20th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering
Ownership, experience and defects: a fine-grained study of authorship
Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering
Bug prediction based on fine-grained module histories
Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering
Proceedings of the ACM-IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering and measurement
Who is going to mentor newcomers in open source projects?
Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT 20th International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering
An industrial study on the risk of software changes
Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT 20th International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering
How, and why, process metrics are better
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering
Dual ecological measures of focus in software development
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering
Distributed development considered harmful?
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering
Sample size vs. bias in defect prediction
Proceedings of the 2013 9th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering
CASCON '13 Proceedings of the 2013 Conference of the Center for Advanced Studies on Collaborative Research
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Ownership is a key aspect of large-scale software development. We examine the relationship between different ownership measures and software failures in two large software projects: Windows Vista and Windows 7. We find that in all cases, measures of ownership such as the number of low-expertise developers, and the proportion of ownership for the top owner have a relationship with both pre-release faults and post-release failures. We also empirically identify reasons that low-expertise developers make changes to components and show that the removal of low-expertise contributions dramatically decreases the performance of contribution based defect prediction. Finally we provide recommendations for source code change policies and utilization of resources such as code inspections based on our results.