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AID: An automated detector for gender-inclusivity bugs in OSS project pages

Creator:

Chatterjee, Amreeta, Guizani, Mariam, Stevens, Catherine, Emard, Jillian, May, Mary Evelyn, Burnett, Margaret, Ahmed, Iftekhar, and Sarma, Anita

Abstract:

The tools and infrastructure used in tech, including Open Source Software (OSS), can embed “inclusivity bugs”—features that disproportionately disadvantage particular groups of contributors. To see whether OSS developers have existing practices to ward off such bugs, we surveyed 266 OSS developers. Our results show that a majority (77%) of developers...

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Conference Proceeding

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the tool’s evaluation on 20 GitHub projects. The tool achieved precision of 0.69, recall of 0.92, an F