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Elazhary, Omar (author), Storey, Margaret-Anne (author), Ernst, Neil (author), Zaidman, A.E. (author)Developer contribution guidelines are used in social coding sites like GitHub to explain and shape the process a project expects contributors to follow. They set standards for all participants and 'save time and hassle caused by improperly created pull requests or issues that have to be rejected and re-submitted' (GitHub). Yet, we lack a...conference paper 2019
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Aniche, Maurício (author), Treude, Christoph (author), Steinmacher, Igor (author), Wiese, Igor (author), Pinto, Gustavo (author), Storey, Margaret Anne (author), Gerosa, Marco Aurélio (author)Many developers rely on modern news aggregator sites such as reddit and hn to stay up to date with the latest technological developments and trends. In order to understand what motivates developers to contribute, what kind of content is shared, and how knowledge is shaped by the community, we interviewed and surveyed developers that participate...conference paper 2018
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Spadini, D. (author), Aniche, Maurício (author), Storey, Margaret-Anne (author), Bruntink, Magiel (author), Bacchelli, A. (author)Automated testing is considered an essential process for ensuring software quality. However, writing and maintaining high-quality test code is challenging and frequently considered of secondary importance. For production code, many open source and industrial software projects employ code review, a well-established software quality practice, but...conference paper 2018
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Gousios, G. (author), Storey, Margaret Anne (author), Bacchelli, A. (author)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) world. Previous work has examined this model by focusing on projects and their owners-we complement it by examining the work practices of project contributors and the...conference paper 2016