Developers' Perception: Fixed Bugs Often Overlooked as Quality Contributions
<|reference_start|>Developers' Perception: Fixed Bugs Often Overlooked as Quality Contributions: High-quality software products rely on both well-written source code and timely detection and thorough reporting of bugs. However, some programmers view bug reports as negative assessments of their work, leading them to withhold reporting bugs, thereby detrimentally impacting projects. Through a survey of 102 programmers, we discovered that only a third of them perceive the quantity of bugs found and rectified in a repository as indicative of higher quality. This finding substantiates the notion that programmers often misinterpret the significance of testing and bug reporting.<|reference_end|>
@article{alifanov2024developers',
    title={Developers' Perception: Fixed Bugs Often Overlooked as Quality
  Contributions},
    author={Vitaly Alifanov and Kamil Almetov and Ivan Kornienko and Arsen
  Mutalapov and Yegor Bugayenko},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.10806},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2403.10806},
    primaryClass={cs.SE}
}