@conference {Schuler:2008:MUE:1370750.1370779, title = {Mining usage expertise from version archives}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2008 international working conference on Mining software repositories}, series = {MSR {\textquoteright}08}, year = {2008}, month = {05/2008}, pages = {121{\textendash}124}, publisher = {ACM}, organization = {ACM}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, abstract = {In software development, there is an increasing need to find and connect developers with relevant expertise. Existing expertise recommendation systems are mostly based on variations of the Line 10 Rule: developers who changed a file most often have the most implementation expertise. In this paper, we introduce the concept of usage expertise, which manifests itself whenever developers are using functionality, e.g., by calling API methods. We present preliminary results for the ECLIPSE project that demonstrate that our technique allows to recommend experts for files with no or little history, identify developers with similar expertise, and measure the usage of API methods.}, keywords = {api, computer-supported cooperative work, eclipse, expertise, recommendation, scm, software repository, source code}, isbn = {978-1-60558-024-1}, doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1370750.1370779}, url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1370750.1370779}, attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/p121-schuler.pdf}, author = {Schuler, David and Zimmermann, Thomas} }