TY - GEN
T1 - Observation of open source programmers' information seeking
AU - Sharif, Khaironi Yatim
AU - Buckley, Jim
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Several authors have proposed information seeking as an appropriate perspective for studying software evolution, and have characterized information seeking empirically in commercial software evolution settings. However, there is little research in the literature describing the information seeking behavior of Open Source programmers. This work describes a holistic schema for Open-Source (OS) programmers' information seeking, generated through open-coding of questions in OS developer mailing lists. It then reports on a study of the JDT mailing list, showing the types of information sought within this group and, for a subset of the data, it characterizes the responses obtained.
AB - Several authors have proposed information seeking as an appropriate perspective for studying software evolution, and have characterized information seeking empirically in commercial software evolution settings. However, there is little research in the literature describing the information seeking behavior of Open Source programmers. This work describes a holistic schema for Open-Source (OS) programmers' information seeking, generated through open-coding of questions in OS developer mailing lists. It then reports on a study of the JDT mailing list, showing the types of information sought within this group and, for a subset of the data, it characterizes the responses obtained.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=70349985978&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICPC.2009.5090071
DO - 10.1109/ICPC.2009.5090071
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:70349985978
SN - 9781424439973
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension
SP - 307
EP - 308
BT - 2009 IEEE 17th International Conference on Program Comprehension, ICPC '09
T2 - 2009 IEEE 17th International Conference on Program Comprehension, ICPC '09
Y2 - 17 May 2009 through 19 May 2009
ER -