publications:
- title: "Summarizing and Measuring Development Activity"
  author:
  - name: "Christoph Treude"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/christoph-treude"
  - name: " Fernando Figueira Filho"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/fernando-figueira-filho"
  - name: "Uirá Kulesza"
    link: "http://www.dimap.ufrn.br/~uira"
  year: "2015"
  abstract: "Software developers pursue a wide range of activities as part of their work, and making sense of what they did in a given time frame is far from trivial as evidenced by the large number of awareness and coordination tools that have been developed in recent years. To inform tool design for making sense of the information available about a developer’s activity, we conducted an empirical study with 156 GitHub users to investigate what information they would expect in a summary of development activity, how they would measure development activity, and what factors influence how such activity can be condensed into textual summaries or numbers. We found that unexpected events are as important as expected events in summaries of what a developer did, and that many developers do not believe in measuring development activity. Among the factors that influence summarization and measurement of development activity, we identified development experience and programming languages."
  researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/TreudeFilhoKulesza2015"
  cites: 0
  citedby: 0
  booktitle: "Proceedings of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering"
  kind: "inproceedings"
  key: "TreudeFilhoKulesza2015"
- title: "Assessing Developer Contribution with Repository Mining-Based Metrics"
  author:
  - name: "Jalerson Lima"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/jalerson-lima"
  - name: "Christoph Treude"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/christoph-treude"
  - name: " Fernando Figueira Filho"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/fernando-figueira-filho"
  - name: "Uirá Kulesza"
    link: "http://www.dimap.ufrn.br/~uira"
  year: "2015"
  abstract: "Productivity as a result of individual developers' contributions is an important aspect for software companies to maintain their competitiveness in the market. However, there is no consensus in the literature on how to measure productivity or developer contribution. While some repository mining-based metrics have been proposed, they lack validation in terms of their applicability and usefulness from the individuals who will use them to assess developer contribution: team and project leaders. In this paper, we propose the design of a suite of metrics for the assessment of developer contribution, based on empirical evidence obtained from project and team leaders. In a preliminary evaluation with four software development teams, we found that code contribution and code complexity metrics received the most positive feedback, while participants pointed out several threats of using bug-related metrics for contribution assessment. None of the metrics can be used in isolation, and project leaders and developers need to be aware of the benefits, limitations, and threats of each one. These findings present a first step towards the design of a larger suite of metrics as well as an investigation into the impact of using metrics to assess contribution."
  researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/LimaTreudeFilhoKulesza2015"
  cites: 0
  citedby: 0
  booktitle: "Assessing Developer Contribution with Repository Mining-Based Metrics"
  kind: "proceedings"
  key: "LimaTreudeFilhoKulesza2015"
- title: "VML* -- A Family of Languages for Variability Management in Software Product Lines"
  author:
  - name: "Steffen  Zschaler"
    link: "http://www.steffen-zschaler.de/"
  - name: "Pablo Sanchez"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/pablo-sanchez"
  - name: "Joao Santos"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/joao-santos"
  - name: "Mauricio Alferez"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/mauricio-alferez"
  - name: "Awais Rashid"
    link: "http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/department/staff.php?name=marash"
  - name: "Lidia Fuentes"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/lidia-fuentes"
  - name: "Ana Moreira"
    link: "http://"
  - name: "Joao Araujo"
    link: "https://researchr.org/alias/joao-araujo"
  - name: "Uirá Kulesza"
    link: "http://www.dimap.ufrn.br/~uira"
  year: "2010"
  month: "mar"
  tags:
  - "software product lines"
  researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/Zschaler-10a"
  cites: 0
  citedby: 0
  booktitle: "Software Language Engineering, 2nd Int'l Conf. (SLE 2009), Revised Selected Papers"
  volume: "5969"
  series: "LNCS"
  publisher: "Springer"
  kind: "inproceedings"
  key: "Zschaler-10a"