Print Email Facebook Twitter Work practices and challenges in pull-based development: The integrator's perspective Title Work practices and challenges in pull-based development: The integrator's perspective Author Gousios, G. Zaidman, A. Storey, M.A. Van Deursen, A. Faculty Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science Department Software Technology Date 2014-09-30 Abstract In the pull-based development model, the integrator has the crucial role of managing and integrating contributions. This work focuses on the role of the integrator and investigates working habits and challenges alike. We set up an exploratory qualitative study involving a large-scale survey involving 749 integrators, to which we add quantitative data from the integrator’s project. Our results provide insights into the factors they consider in their decision making process to accept or reject a contribution. Our key findings are that integrators struggle to maintain the quality of their projects and have difficulties with prioritizing contributions that are to be merged. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:757f9888-abf4-4dd5-a734-d5280e189a67 Publisher Delft University of Technology, Software Engineering Research Group ISSN 1872-5392 Source Technical Report Series TUD-SERG-2014-013 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type report Rights © 2014 The Author(s) . Software Engineering Research Group, Department of Software Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft University of Technology Files PDF TUD-SERG-2014-013.pdf 591.09 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid%3A757f9888-abf4-4dd5-a734-d5280e189a67/datastream/OBJ/view