MSR 2020
Mon 29 - Tue 30 June 2020
co-located with ICSE 2020
Tue 30 Jun 2020 16:00 - 16:10 at MSR:Zoom - Developer Collaboration Chair(s): Bogdan Vasilescu

Social media, especially Twitter, has always been a part of the professional lives of software developers, with prior work reporting on a diversity of usage scenarios, including sharing information, staying current, and promoting one’s work. However, previous studies of Twitter use by software developers are generally restricted to surveys or small samples, and typically lack information about activities of the study subjects (and their outcomes) on other platforms. To enable such future research, in this paper we propose a computational approach to cross-linking users on Twitter and GitHub, the dominant platform for hosting open-source development, revealing 70,428 users active on both. As a preliminary analysis of this dataset, we report on a case study of 800 tweets by open-source developers about GitHub work, combining precise automatic characterization of tweet authors in terms of their relationship to the GitHub items linked in their tweets with a deep qualitative analysis of the tweet contents. We find that developers have very distinct behavioral patterns when including GitHub links in their tweets and these patterns are correlated with the relationship between the tweet author and the repository they link to. Based on this analysis, we hypothesize about what might explain such behavioral differences and what the implications of different tweeting patterns could be for the sustainability of GitHub projects.

Tue 30 Jun

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16:00 - 17:00
Developer CollaborationTechnical Papers / Registered Reports / Keynote / MSR Awards / FOSS Award / Education / Data Showcase / Mining Challenge / MSR Challenge Proposals / Ask Me Anything at MSR:Zoom
Chair(s): Bogdan Vasilescu Carnegie Mellon University

Q/A & Discussion of Session Papers over Zoom (Joining info available on Slack)

16:00
10m
Live Q&A
Need for tweet. How open-source developers use Twitter to talk about their GitHub workMSR - Technical Paper
Technical Papers
Pre-print Media Attached
16:10
10m
Live Q&A
Can We Use SE-specific Sentiment Analysis Tools in a Cross-Platform Setting?MSR - Technical Paper
Technical Papers
Nicole Novielli University of Bari, Fabio Calefato University of Bari, Davide Dongiovanni University of Bari, Daniela Girardi University of Bari, Filippo Lanubile University of Bari
DOI Pre-print Media Attached
16:20
10m
Live Q&A
GitterCom: A Dataset of Open Source Developer Communications in GitterMSR - Data Showcase
Data Showcase
A: Esteban Parra Florida State University, A: Ashley Ellis , A: Sonia Haiduc Florida State University
Pre-print Media Attached
16:30
10m
Live Q&A
The Impact of Dynamics of Collaborative Software Engineering on Introverts: A Study ProtocolMSR - Registered Reports
Registered Reports
A: Ingrid Nunes Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil, A: Christoph Treude The University of Adelaide, A: Fabio Calefato University of Bari
Pre-print Media Attached
16:40
10m
Live Q&A
Software-related Slack Chats with Disentangled ConversationsMSR - Data Showcase
Data Showcase
A: Preetha Chatterjee University of Delaware, USA, A: Kostadin Damevski Virginia Commonwealth University, A: Nicholas A. Kraft UserVoice, A: Lori Pollock
Pre-print Media Attached
16:50
10m
Live Q&A
Traceability Support for Multi-Lingual Software ProjectsACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper AwardMSR - Technical Paper
Technical Papers
Yalin Liu University of Notre Dame, Jinfeng Lin University of Notre Dame, Jane Cleland-Huang University of Notre Dame
Media Attached