Austin Z. Henley

To fix or to learn? How production bias affects developers' information foraging during debugging

2015

Developers performing maintenance activities must balance their efforts to learn the code vs. their efforts to actually change it. This balancing act is consistent with the “production bias” that, according to Carroll's minimalist learning theory, …

How are Software Repositories Mined? A Systematic Literature Review of Workflows, Methodologies, Reproducibility, and Tools

2022 · arXiv (Cornell University)

With the advent of open source software, a veritable treasure trove of previously proprietary software development data was made available. This opened the field of empirical software engineering research to anyone in academia. Data that …