Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Semmle Limited

Ian Paul Wright

Albert Ziegler

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for receiving a source code change; computing a distribution of standard coding durations using a model that takes as input features of source code changes; and computing a representative duration for the code change using the distribution of standard coding durations, wherein the representative duration represents a measure of how long a standard developer defined by the model would take to make the code change.

Coding output

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for obtaining a commit time history of a developer entity, wherein the commit time history indicates, for each unit time interval of a plurality of unit time intervals, whether or not the developer entity committed source code during the unit time interval; and generating a model that takes the commit history as input and generates an output sequence of final probabilities, each final probability representing how likely it was that the developer entity was active during the corresponding unit time interval.

Computing elapsed coding time

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for automatically determining developer team composition. One of the methods includes obtaining a reference set of snapshots for a code base, each snapshot comprising a representation of source code of the code base at a particular time and being associated with a particular project and a particular developer of a team of developers of the code base; selecting a subset of snapshots; dividing the subset into a plurality of time windows; for each time window and for each developer that committed a snapshot to the reference collection of snapshots during the time window, determining a normalized rating of the developer's skills in each of a plurality of developer activity metrics; and aggregating, for each time window, the normalized ratings for each developer to generate a developer team composition for the fixed period of time.

Automatic determination of developer team composition

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for computing coding velocity. One of the methods includes receiving a definition of one or more individual source code developers belonging to a target developer entity. Coding-velocity samples for each individual source code developer belonging to the target developer entity are generated, wherein each coding-velocity sample represents a measure of coding activity by the individual source code developer over a respective time duration. The coding-velocity samples are aggregated according to the definition of the target developer entity. A coding-velocity model for the target developer entity is generated from the aggregated coding-velocity samples of the target developer entity. A value of a particular coding-velocity attribute for the target developer entity is computed using the coding-velocity model.

Coding velocity

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for designating developers as having a particular skill. One of the methods includes obtaining a reference collection of snapshots for a code base, wherein each snapshot comprises a representation of source code of the code base at a particular time, each snapshot being associated with a particular developer of a plurality of developers of the code base. A plurality of metrics for each developer that committed at least one snapshot to the reference collection of snapshots is computed. Respective values of the plurality of metrics are partitioned into a plurality of respective partitions, and each of the plurality of developers are assigned to one of the plurality of partitions for each of the plurality of metrics. Developers in one or more top-ranked partitions are designated as developers having a particular skill.

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