@conference {1822,
	title = {An Empirical Study of Developer Quality},
	booktitle = {2015 International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security - Companion (QRS-C)},
	year = {2015},
	pages = {202 - 209},
	publisher = {IEEE},
	organization = {IEEE},
	address = {Vancouver, BC, Canada},
	abstract = {Human factors have attracted more and more attention in software engineering. Of many kinds of developer metrics proposed, developer quality is important. Recently, some researchers measure a developer{\textquoteright}s quality as the rate of his/hernon bug-introducing commits. In this paper, we conduct an empirical study of this developer quality metric. We use the data of six open source software projects and get the following conclusions: (1) the values of developer quality in a project are uniformly distributed in a certain range, (2) developer quality tends to increase with software evolution, (3) developers with more contribution are more likely to have higher developer quality, (4) ownership does not have a consistent and significant correlation with developer quality. These results can provide project leaders and team members with some guides to improve developer quality, and thus improve software quality.
},
	doi = {10.1109/QRS-C.2015.33},
	author = {Qiu, Yilin and Zhang, Weiqiang and Zou, Weiqin and Liu, Jia and Liu, Qin}
}
