Got issues? Who cares about it? A large scale investigation of issue trackers from GitHub

• Main Authors: BISSYANDE, Tegawende F., LO, David, JIANG, Lingxiao, REVEILLERE, Laurent, KLEIN, Jacques, LE TRAON, Yves
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
• Subjects: public domain software; Software performance evaluation; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/2087; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/3086/viewcontent/issre13issues.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Feedback from software users constitutes a vital part in the evolution of software projects. By filing issue reports, users help identify and fix bugs, document software code, and enhance the software via feature requests. Many studies have explored issue reports, proposed approaches to enable the s...