Haratian, VahidEvtikhiev, M.Derakhshanfar, P.Tüzün, ErayKovalenko, V.2024-03-202024-03-2020239798400703270https://hdl.handle.net/11693/115000Conference Name: ESEC/FSE 2023 - Proceedings of the 31st ACM Joint Meeting European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software EngineeringDate of Conference: 3 December 2023 - 9 December 2023Software projects experience the departure of developers due to various reasons. As developers are one of the main sources of knowl edge in software projects, their absence will inevitably result in a certain degree of knowledge depletion. Bus Factor (BF) is a met ric to evaluate how this knowledge loss can affect the project’s continuityenCC BY-NC-ND (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International)Bus factorTruck factorFile significanceDatasetKnowledge managementIntelligent collaboration toolsBFSig: leveraging file significance in bus factor estimationConference Paper10.1145/3611643.3613877