Latent social structure in open source projects
Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of software engineering
The future of collaborative software development
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work Companion
Social coding in GitHub: transparency and collaboration in an open software repository
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Do Developers Introduce Bugs When They Do Not Communicate? The Case of Eclipse and Mozilla
CSMR '12 Proceedings of the 2012 16th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering
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The evolution of the Web has allowed the generation of several platforms for collaborative work. One of the main contributors to these advances is the Open Source initiative, in which projects are boosted to a new level of interaction and cooperation that improves their software quality and reliability. In order to understand how the group of contributors interacts with the software under development, we propose a novel methodology that adapts Lotka-Volterra-based biological models used for host-parasite interaction. In that sense, we used the concept mutualism from social parasites. Preliminary results based on experiments on the Github collaborative platform showed that Open Source phenomena can be modeled as a mutualistic system, in terms of the evolution of the population of developers and repositories.