SamikshaUmbra: Contribution and Performance Assessment of Software Maintenance Professionals by Mining Software Repositories

Contribution and performance assessment is an established practice in organization with its sphere of influence spanning process, policy, people (client) and personnel (employee). Multiple roles in organization (for e.g. employees, project manager, hr manager etc.) view contribution and performance assessment with different perspectives and objectives. However, despite its ability to ensure growth and affluence of organization existing contribution and performance assessment practices are marred with flaws and imperfections. The objective of this work is to serve wide-ranged requirements of software maintenance professionals (in context of contribution and performance assessment) in organization by application of variegated approaches (tools, techniques, models etc.) on software repositories (Issue Tracking System, Version Control System, Source Code Repositories etc.). We study pain-points of practitioners (in context of contribution and performance assessment) and present solution approach by mining software repositories. We implement the approach on real-world data and gather insights from practitioners to validate and improve our research. In this paper, 'SamikshaUmbra' (research umbrella that circumscribe related research threads) we present approach to meet stated research objectives and viable research directions.