Dear Developers, your Expertise in One Place

Abstract

Software engineers are using a variety of social platforms, where they participate in open source software projects and respond to other developers that ask for help on specific issues. This presence of developers in different platforms is a mirror of their hands-on experience and expertise in different technologies and programming languages and a useful source of information for their own use but also for potential employers. In this work, we present our approach, Expertise Analyzer, that gathers diverse user-relevant activities in one location. Our approach introduces a number of metrics that summarize the experience and expertise of software engineers and can prove useful for giving a merged view of all developer interactions.