Do developers discuss design?

2016 IEEE/ACM 13th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) Pub Date : 2014-05-31 DOI:10.1145/2597073.2597115

João Brunet, G. Murphy, Ricardo Terra, J. Figueiredo, D. Guerrero

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Design is often raised in the literature as important to attaining various properties and characteristics in a software system. At least for open-source projects, it can be hard to find evidence of ongoing design work in the technical artifacts produced as part of the development. Although developers usually do not produce specific design documents, they do communicate about design in different ways. In this paper, we provide quantitative evidence that developers address design through discussions in commits, issues, and pull requests. To achieve this, we built a discussions' classifier and automatically labeled 102,122 discussions from 77 projects. Based on this data, we make four observations about the projects: i) on average, 25% of the discussions in a project are about design; ii) on average, 26% of developers contribute to at least one design discussion; iii) only 1% of the developers contribute to more than 15% of the discussions in a project; and iv) these few developers who contribute to a broad range of design discussions are also the top committers in a project.

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开发人员会讨论设计吗?

在文献中，设计经常被认为是获得软件系统中各种属性和特征的重要因素。至少对于开源项目，很难在作为开发一部分的技术工件中找到正在进行的设计工作的证据。虽然开发人员通常不制作具体的设计文档，但他们确实以不同的方式交流设计。在本文中，我们提供了量化的证据，证明开发人员通过讨论提交、问题和拉取请求来解决设计问题。为了实现这一点，我们构建了一个讨论分类器，并自动标记了来自77个项目的102,122个讨论。基于这些数据，我们对项目进行了四个观察:i)平均而言，项目中25%的讨论是关于设计的;Ii)平均而言，26%的开发者参与了至少一次设计讨论;Iii)在一个项目中，只有1%的开发者参与了超过15%的讨论;iv)这些参与设计讨论的少数开发人员也是项目中的顶级提交者。

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