The relation between developers' communication and fix-Inducing changes: An empirical study

Results and implications Results indicate that the majority of bugs are fixed by committers who did not induce them, a smaller but substantial percentage of bugs is fixed by committers that induced them, and very few bugs are fixed by committers that were not directly involved in previous changes on the same files of the fix. More importantly, committers inducing fixes tend to have a lower level of communication between each other than that of other committers. This last finding suggests that increasing the level of communication between fix-inducing committers could reduce the number of fixes induced in a software project.