Dev2vec: Representing Domain Expertise of Developers in an Embedding Space

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2207.05132v1
• Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2022 18:56:49 GMT
• Title: Dev2vec: Representing Domain Expertise of Developers in an Embedding Space
• Authors: Arghavan Moradi Dakhel, Michel C. Desmarais, Foutse Khomh
• Abstract summary: We employ doc2vec to represent the domain expertise of developers as embedding vectors. These vectors are derived from different sources that contain evidence of developers' expertise. Our results indicate that encoding the expertise of developers in an embedding vector outperforms state-of-the-art methods.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Accurate assessment of the domain expertise of developers is important for assigning the proper candidate to contribute to a project or to attend a job role. Since the potential candidate can come from a large pool, the automated assessment of this domain expertise is a desirable goal. While previous methods have had some success within a single software project, the assessment of a developer's domain expertise from contributions across multiple projects is more challenging. In this paper, we employ doc2vec to represent the domain expertise of developers as embedding vectors. These vectors are derived from different sources that contain evidence of developers' expertise, such as the description of repositories that they contributed, their issue resolving history, and API calls in their commits. We name it dev2vec and demonstrate its effectiveness in representing the technical specialization of developers. Our results indicate that encoding the expertise of developers in an embedding vector outperforms state-of-the-art methods and improves the F1-score up to 21%. Moreover, our findings suggest that ``issue resolving history'' of developers is the most informative source of information to represent the domain expertise of developers in embedding spaces.

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