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most citedAutomating the Removal of Obsolete TODO Comments

34 citations · 76 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cs.SE2022

Understanding Skills for OSS Communities on GitHub

Jenny T. Liang, Thomas Zimmermann, Denae Ford

The development of open source software (OSS) is a broad field which requires diverse skill sets. For example, maintainers help lead the project and promote its longevity, technica…

cs.SE2022

Towards Mining OSS Skills from GitHub Activity

Jenny T. Liang, Thomas Zimmermann, Denae Ford

Open source software (OSS) development relies on diverse skill sets. However, to our knowledge, there are no tools which detect OSS-related skills. In this paper, we present a nove…

cs.SE20221 cited

Attracting and Retaining OSS Contributors with a Maintainer Dashboard

Mariam Guizani, Thomas Zimmermann, Anita Sarma +1

Tools and artifacts produced by open source software (OSS) have been woven into the foundation of the technology industry. To keep this foundation intact, the open source community…

cs.SE202110 cited

Developers Who Vlog: Dismantling Stereotypes through Community and Identity

Souti Chattopadhyay, Denae Ford, Thomas Zimmermann

Developers are more than "nerds behind computers all day", they lead a normal life, and not all take the traditional path to learn programming. However, the public still sees softw…

cs.SE202134 cited

Automating the Removal of Obsolete TODO Comments

Zhipeng Gao, Xin Xia, David Lo +2

TODO comments are very widely used by software developers to describe their pending tasks during software development. However, after performing the task developers sometimes negle…

cs.SE20218 cited

Reel Life vs. Real Life: How Software Developers Share Their Daily Life through Vlogs

Souti Chattopadhyay, Thomas Zimmermann, Denae Ford

Software developers are turning to vlogs (video blogs) to share what a day is like to walk in their shoes. Through these vlogs developers share a rich perspective of their technica…