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Impact of switching bug trackers: a case study

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Any significant software project requires a bug tracker. In open source development, this plays an even bigger role. The impact of the bug reporting environment on the bug tracking activity is difficult to assess. In this paper, we take advantage of the switch from Bugzilla to GitHub of the bug tracker of Coq, a medium-sized open source project, to evaluate the impact that such a change can have. We first report on the switch itself, in particular the migration of 4900 preexisting bug reports using the GitHub issue import API; then we analyze data from before and after the migration. We show that the switch induces an increase in bug reporting, particularly from principal developers themselves, and more generally an increased engagement with the bug tracking platform, with more comments by developers and also more external commentators.
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hal-01951176 , version 1 (12-12-2018)
hal-01951176 , version 2 (05-03-2019)
hal-01951176 , version 3 (26-07-2019)

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Théo Zimmermann, Annalí Casanueva Artís. Impact of switching bug trackers: a case study. 2018. ⟨hal-01951176v1⟩
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