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James D. Herbsleb
Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University
Publications - 180
Citations - 19138
James D. Herbsleb is an academic researcher from Carnegie Mellon University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Software development & Social software engineering. The author has an hindex of 58, co-authored 174 publications receiving 17862 citations. Previous affiliations of James D. Herbsleb include Alcatel-Lucent & Bell Labs.
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Two case studies of open source software development: Apache and Mozilla
TL;DR: This work examines data from two major open source projects, the Apache web server and the Mozilla browser, and quantifies aspects of developer participation, core team size, code ownership, productivity, defect density, and problem resolution intervals for these OSS projects.
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An empirical study of speed and communication in globally distributed software development
James D. Herbsleb,Audris Mockus +1 more
TL;DR: This work uses both data from the source code change management system and survey data to model the extent of delay in a distributed software development organization and explores several possible mechanisms for this delay.
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Global software development
TL;DR: The author considers how software development is increasingly a multisite, multicultural, globally distributed undertaking.
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Social coding in GitHub: transparency and collaboration in an open software repository
TL;DR: It is found that people make a surprisingly rich set of social inferences from the networked activity information in GitHub, such as inferring someone else's technical goals and vision when they edit code, or guessing which of several similar projects has the best chance of thriving in the long term.
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Global Software Engineering: The Future of Socio-technical Coordination
TL;DR: A desired future for global development and the problems that stand in the way of achieving that vision are described and the need for a systematic understanding of what drives the need to coordinate and effective mechanisms for bringing it about is noted.