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Towards improving bug tracking systems with game mechanisms. Msr (2012).
| Content Provider | CiteSeerX |
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| Author | Lotufo, Rafael Passos, Leonardo Czarnecki, Krzysztof |
| Abstract | Abstract—Low bug report quality and human conflicts pose challenges to keep bug tracking systems productive. This work proposes to address these issues by applying game mechanisms to bug tracking systems. We investigate the use of game mech-anisms in Stack Overflow, an online community organized to resolve computer programming related problems, for which the improvements we seek for bug tracking systems also turn out to be relevant. The results of our Stack Overflow investigation show that its game mechanisms could be used to address these issues by motivating contributors to increase contribution fre-quency and quality, by filtering useful contributions, and by cre-ating an agile and dependable moderation system. We proceed by mapping these mechanisms to open-source bug tracking sys-tems, and find that most benefits are applicable. Additionally, our results motivate tailoring a reward and reputation system and summarizing bug reports as future directions for increas-ing the benefits of game mechanisms in bug tracking systems. I. |
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| Publisher Date | 2012-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Game Mechanism Useful Contribution Stack Overflow Future Direction Online Community Open-source Bug Dependable Moderation System Related Problem Reputation System Stack Overflow Investigation Show Human Conflict Game Mech-anisms Report Quality Abstract Low Contribution Fre-quency Bug Report |
| Content Type | Text |