Open Source Resume (OSR): A Visualization Tool for Presenting OSS Biographies of Developers

In order to recruit appropriate developersfor software projects, it is important to have a clarifiedunderstanding on the practical experience and expertise of eachcandidate. However, traditional resume only shows experiencesclaimed by developers, and very few evidence or informationregarding their actual development activities can be obtained. In this paper, we propose an approach to extract developers'practical activities from their participated open source software(OSS) projects, and generate the biographies that reflect theirOSS contributions. We applied the approach on the largest codehosting service, GitHub. By investigating the resumes generatedfrom the extracted dataset, recruiters of software projects canbe given a clearer view on whether the developers' experiencesfulfill the qualifications. Moreover, based on the approach, wepresent a web-based visualization tool, named as Open SourceResume (OSR). We believe our tool is useful to help recruitersfrom software development organizations to search for suitabledevelopers, and then construct development teams in softwareprojects based on their OSS contributions.