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论文类型：期刊论文

发表时间：2014-12-01

发表刊物：SCIENCE CHINA-INFORMATION SCIENCES

收录刊物：SCIE、EI

卷号：57

期号：12

页面范围：1-23

ISSN号：1674-733X

关键字：developer social networks; social network analysis; software maintenance; communication and coordination; prediction and recommendation

摘要：With the increasing popularity of Internet, more and more developers are collaborating together for software development. During the collaboration, a lot of information related to software development, including communication and coordination information of developers, can be recorded in software repositories. The information can be employed to construct Developer Social Networks (DSNs) for facilitating tasks in software engineering. In this paper, we survey recent advances of DSNs and examine three fundamental steps of DSNs, namely construction, analysis, and applications. We summarize the state-of-the-art methods in the three steps and investigate the relationships among them. Furthermore, we discuss the main issues and point out the future opportunities in the study of DSNs.