Software developers rely on media to communicate, learn, collaborate, and coordinate with
others. Recently, social media has dramatically changed the landscape of software …

App Stores, such as Google Play or the Apple Store, allow users to provide feedback on
apps by posting review comments and giving star ratings. These platforms constitute a …

The pull-based development model is an emerging way of contributing to distributed
software projects that is gaining enormous popularity within the open source software (OSS) …

Software developers use many different communication tools and channels in their work.
The diversity of these tools has dramatically increased over the past decade and developers …

Code review is the manual assessment of source code by humans, mainly intended to
identify defects and quality problems. Modern Code Review (MCR), a lightweight variant of …

Historically, mailing lists have been the preferred means for coordinating development and
user support activities. With the emergence and popularity growth of social Q&A sites such …

Software development is a collaborative activity in which developers interact to create and
maintain a complex software system. Human collaboration inevitably evokes emotions like …

In fast-paced, reuse-heavy, and distributed software development, the transparency
provided by social coding platforms like GitHub is essential to decision making. Developers …

Code ownership establishes a chain of responsibility for modules in large software systems.
Although prior work uncovers a link between code ownership heuristics and software …

Software code review is a well-established software quality practice. Recently, Modern Code
Review (MCR) has been widely adopted in both open source and proprietary projects. Our …