Issue Workflow Explorer (IWE)
Resolving issues is an essential part of Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) development. For large and active projects, there could be hundreds of new issues reported every month, which have mixed quality. To deal with this complexity, the projects developed their protocols of resolving issues (i.e., issue workflows) adapting to the changing environment. To help understand and develop best practices, it's important to explore how the workflow evolves in the history, e.g., a particular workflow emerges under what circumstances, how efficient it is and whether it can be improved. We build Issue Workflow Explorer (IWE) to help practitioners seek answers. Based on ubiquitous records in issue tracking system, IWE provides functionalities of discovering workflows, quantifying, visualizing and comparing their efficiency.
Developers:
- Zhen Zhong (钟震)
- Zhuolun He (何卓论)
Paper authors:
- Jiaxin Zhu (朱家鑫)
- Zhen Zhong (钟震)
- Minghui Zhou（周明辉）
On-line demo:
- http://yuekeplus.cn/iwe/demo/mozilla (Mozilla data)
- http://yuekeplus.cn/iwe/demo/gnome (GNOME data)