What is it about?

The paper introduces an approach and a tool (RepoSkillMiner) for automatically extracting software expertise from a developer's activity on repositories such as GitHub,

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Why is it important?

Identifying expertise from artifacts can be a useful alternative for organizations, not only for hiring purposes, but also for managing their existing resources, maintaining and developing their skillset and monitoring any potential skill shortage.

Perspectives

The initial feedback that we received from companies is that 'Artifact-Based Skill Identification' can be highly valuable to track personnel expertise which evolves largely throughout someone's career.

Alexander Chatzigeorgiou
University of Macedonia

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This page is a summary of: RepoSkillMiner, December 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3324884.3415305.
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