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| Type | Conference or Workshop Paper |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Published in Proceedings | Yes |
| Title | How is video game development different from software development in open source? |
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| Presentation Type | paper |
| Item Subtype | Original Work |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Status | Published in final form |
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| ISBN | 9781450357166 |
| Page Range | 392 - 402 |
| Event Title | 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories |
| Event Type | conference |
| Event Location | Gothenburg, Sweden |
| Event Start Date | June 28 - 2018 |
| Event End Date | June 29 - 2018 |
| Series Name | Proceedings of the International Conference on Mining Software Repositories |
| Place of Publication | New York, New York, USA |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
| Abstract Text | Recent research has provided evidence that, in the industrial context, developing video games diverges from developing software systems in other domains, such as office suites and system utilities. In this paper, we consider video game development in the open source system (OSS) context. Specifically, we investigate how developers contribute to video games vs. non-games by working on different kinds of artifacts, how they handle malfunctions, and how they perceive the development process of their projects. To this purpose, we conducted a mixed, qualitative and quantitative study on a broad suite of 60 OSS projects. Our results confirm the existence of significant differences between game and non-game development, in terms of how project resources are organized and in the diversity of developers' specializations. Moreover, game developers responding to our survey perceive more difficulties than other developers when reusing code as well as performing automated testing, and they lack a clear overview of their system's requirements. |
| Digital Object Identifier | 10.1145/3196398.3196418 |
| Other Identification Number | merlin-id:16639 |
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| Funders | Swiss National Science Foundation: SNF Project No. PP00P2_170529 ; European Commission: SENECA - EU MSCA-ITN-2014-EID no.642954 |
| Additional Information | © {Owner/Author | ACM} {2018}. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive Version of Record was published in {Source Publication}, https://doi.org/10.1145/3196398.3196418. |