Heard It through the Gitvine: An Empirical Study of Tool Diffusion across the npm Ecosystem
Automation tools like continuous integration services, code coverage reporters, style checkers, dependency managers, etc. are all known to provide significant improvements in developer productivity and software quality. Some of these tools are widespread, others are not. How do these automation "best practices" spread? And how might we facilitate the diffusion process for those that have seen slower adoption? In this paper, we rely on a recent innovation in transparency on code hosting platforms like GitHub—the use of repository badges—to track how automation tools spread in open-source ecosystems through different social and technical mechanisms over time. Using a large longitudinal data set, multivariate network science techniques, and survival analysis, we study which socio-technical factors can best explain the observed diffusion process of a number of popular automation tools. Our results show that factors such as social exposure, competition, and observability affect the adoption of tools significantly, and they provide a roadmap for software engineers and researchers seeking to propagate best practices and tools.
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01:00 - 01:30 | Developer Support 2Research Papers / Tool Demos / Industry Papers / Paper Presentations / Visions and Reflections at Virtual room 1 | ||
01:00 2mTalk | Adapting Bug Prediction Models to Predict Reverted Commits at Wayfair Industry Papers Alexander Suh Wayfair Research, USA DOI | ||
01:03 1mTalk | ARCADE: An Extensible Workbench for Architecture Recovery, Change, and Decay Evaluation Tool Demos Marcelo Schmitt Laser University of Southern California, USA, Nenad Medvidović University of Southern California, USA, Duc Minh Le Bloomberg, USA, Joshua Garcia University of California, Irvine DOI | ||
01:05 1mTalk | BEE: A Tool for Structuring and Analyzing Bug Reports Tool Demos DOI | ||
01:07 1mTalk | Enhancing Developers' Support on Pull Requests Activities with Software Bots Paper Presentations Mairieli Wessel University of São Paulo | ||
01:09 1mTalk | Heard It through the Gitvine: An Empirical Study of Tool Diffusion across the npm Ecosystem Research Papers Hemank Lamba Carnegie Mellon University, USA, Asher Trockman Carnegie Mellon University, USA, Daniel Armanios Carnegie Mellon University, USA, Christian Kästner Carnegie Mellon University, USA, Heather Miller Carnegie Mellon University, USA, Bogdan Vasilescu Carnegie Mellon University, USA DOI | ||
01:11 1mTalk | Next Generation Automated Software Evolution Refactoring at Scale Visions and Reflections James Ivers Carnegie Mellon University, USA, Ipek Ozkaya Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute, Robert Nord Software Engineering Institute, Chris Seifried Carnegie Mellon University, USA DOI | ||
01:13 17mTalk | Conversations on Developer Support 2 Paper Presentations Alexander Suh Wayfair Research, USA, Ipek Ozkaya Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute, Mairieli Wessel University of São Paulo, Marcelo Schmitt Laser University of Southern California, USA, Yang Song University of North Carolina Wilmington, M: Bonita Sharif University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA | ||