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Post Release Versions based Code Change Quality Metrics

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WCI '15: Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Women in Computing and Informatics

Pages 235 - 243

https://doi.org/10.1145/2791405.2791466

Published: 10 August 2015 Publication History

Abstract

Software Metric is a quantitative measure of the degree to which a system, component or process possesses a given attribute. Bug fixing, new features (NFs) introduction and feature improvements (IMPs) are the key factors in deciding the next version of software. For fixing an issue (bug/new feature/feature improvement), a lot of changes have to be incorporated into the source code of the software. These code changes need to be understood by software engineers and managers when performing their daily development and maintenance tasks. In this paper, we have proposed four new metrics namely code change quality, code change density, file change quality and file change density to understand the quality of code changes across the different versions of five open source software products, namely Avro, Pig, Hive, jUDDI and Whirr of Apache project. Results show that all the products get better code change quality over a period of time. We have also observed that all the five products follow the similar code change trend.

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WCI '15: Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Women in Computing and Informatics

August 2015

763 pages

ISBN:9781450333610

DOI:10.1145/2791405

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SCMS, Kochi, India
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Sushmita Mitra
Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
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Ljiljana Trajković
Simon Fraser University, Canada
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University of Delhi, India
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Suzanne McIntosh
New York University and Cloudera Inc., USA
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IIITM-K, Trivandrum, India

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Lumbard KGermonprez MGoggins S(2023)An empirical investigation of social comparison and open source community healthInformation Systems Journal10.1111/isj.1248534:2(499-532)Online publication date: 15-Nov-2023
https://doi.org/10.1111/isj.12485
Goggins SLumbard KGermonprez M(2021)Open Source Community Health: Analytical Metrics and Their Corresponding Narratives2021 IEEE/ACM 4th International Workshop on Software Health in Projects, Ecosystems and Communities (SoHeal)10.1109/SoHeal52568.2021.00010(25-33)Online publication date: May-2021
https://doi.org/10.1109/SoHeal52568.2021.00010

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