EVOLUTION OF SOCIAL DEVELOPER NETWORK IN OSS: SURVEY

Anil Kumar

Abstract: Social Developer Networks are built of complex hierarchical social network which forms relationship information between software entities. Recent research trends suggested many different successful methods on Social Developer Network to analyze its growth and advancement of network structure. Aim is to present brief survey on the analysis, method, algorithm used in developer social network and techniques and technologies available to analyze performance of the developers associated network. Further discuss the growth, extension of its research field, existing methodologies and approach, extended tasks and techniques in developer social network and OSS.

Keywords: Social Developer Network, Open Source Software, OSS, Social Network, Community Structure, developers, bug resolving process, defects

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0304074