CONTINUITY OF DEVELOPER RANKING AND GROWTH CHANGE PREDICTION

Anil Kumar

Abstract: Enormous amounts of raw content and information exist universally and large databases contain unordered, ungraded and unranked data. Ranking is most famous, ubiquitous and comprehensive techniques to build hierarchy of unordered group of items by calculating rank of every item based on one or several multiple attributes values. This technique allows analyzing and evaluating product performance with other products. Widespread usage of ranking technique represents relationship among several groups of well known items. In this analysis paper, We retrieve promising information from Git repository and demonstrate important fact of developers working individually or in a group and rank the developers based on core activities and contribution on several projects, bug resolving processes, source code commit and expertise in multiple languages by mining Git (a version control repository system). We discover key developers, influential software practitioner, projects and programming languages. We found developers grow over time in diverse areas. Our result shows developer ranking can assists project manager to take better quality decision to assign projects and gain help from expertise developer to support newly joined team members in the organization. Ranked developer can assists business to improve source code quality, timely delivery of projects, lower maintenance cost and better customer satisfaction.

Keywords: software practitioners, ranking, developers, Language-Language, commits

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0305014