What topics do Firefox and Chrome contributors discuss?

Submitted by msquire on Tue, 2011-12-20 10:58

Title	What topics do Firefox and Chrome contributors discuss?
Publication Type	Conference Paper
Year of Publication	2011
Authors	Zagarese, Q, Distante, D, Di Penta, M, Bernardi, ML, Sementa, C
Tertiary Authors	van Deursen, A, Xie, T, Zimmermann, T
Secondary Title	Proceedings of the 8th working conference on Mining software repositories - MSR '11
Pagination	234-237
Date Published	05/2011
Publisher	ACM Press
Place Published	New York, New York, USA
ISBN Number	9781450305747
Keywords	bug reports, chrome, Firefox, LDA, msr challenge
Abstract	Firefox and Chrome are two very popular open source Web browsers, implemented in C/C++. This paper analyzes what topics were discussed in Firefox and Chrome bug reports over time. To this aim, we indexed the text contained in bug reports submitted each semester of the project history, and identified topics using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA). Then, we investigated to what extent Firefox and Chrome developers/contributors discussed similar topics, either in different periods, or over the same period. Results indicate a non-negligible overlap of topics, mainly on issues related to page layouting, user interaction, and multimedia contents.
DOI	10.1145/1985441.1985480
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