Extracting communication structure of a development organization from a software repository

摘要: Researchers have found that communication cost is one of the major overheads affecting overall software development. Actually, there could be problems caused by cultural difference, language barrier, different time zone, and, etc. in geographically distributed Thus, extracting potential structural information very useful understanding and optimizing development organization. Analyzing structure also crucial order to resolve issues. While this already true for general organizations, organizations are especially sensitive these issues because they forced rely on costly mediums. Therefore, paper suggests a way extract organization from repositories with respect temporal locality. The locality important when project prolonged lengthy period time. In evaluate issues, we define two metrics which measure contribution individual developer need between developers. We provide tool using metrics. extracted visualized give insight into managers Finally, statistical results empirical research prove soundness our approach. result shows approach reflects real-world relationship developers well.