Developer Experience with the Django Web Framework (Extended Abstract)

Abstract

Web frameworks involve many aspects, e.g., forms, model, testing, and migration. Developers differ in terms of their per-aspect experience. We describe a methodology for the identification of relevant aspects of a web app framework, measurement of experience atoms per developer and per aspect based on the commit history of actual projects, and the compilation of developer profiles for summarizing the relevance of different aspects and the developers’ contribution to the project. Measurement relies on a rule-based language. Our case study is concerned with the Pythonbased Django web app framework and the open source Django-Oscar project from which experience atoms were extracted.