The Secret Life of Bugs: Going Past the Errors and Omissions in Software Repositories

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In all honesty this is a very boring reading, the writing is too complex for the actual content and its meaning.
The main idea is: mine software repositories to discover how teams (ought to) coordinate and communicate.
For example, can we really assume that if two developers didn’t send each other an email on a particular period then they were working uncoordinated? It’s an (until recently) untested assumption, but that doesn’t seem to give much pause to the researchers in the area.
I think the explosion of interest in MSR was motivated by frustration with the difficulty in doing something ’empirical’ in software engineering

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