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Influence of developer factors on code quality: a data study
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Autor/a:
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Salamea Bravo, María José; Farré Tost, Carles
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Otros autores:
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Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Doctorat en Computació; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Enginyeria de Serveis i Sistemes d'Informació; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. inSSIDE - integrated Software, Service, Information and Data Engineering |
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Abstract:
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Automatic source-code inspection tools help to assess,
monitor and improve code quality. Since these tools only
examine the software project’s codebase, they overlook other
possible factors that may impact code quality and the assessment of the technical debt (TD). Our initial hypothesis is that human factors associated with the software developers, like coding expertise, communication skills, and experience in the project have some measurable impact on the code quality. In this exploratory study, we test this hypothesis on two large open source repositories, using TD as a code quality metric and the data that may be inferred from the version control systems. The preliminary results of our statistical analysis suggest that the level of participation of the developers and their experience in the project have a positive correlation with the amount of TD
that they introduce. On the contrary, communication skills have
barely any impact on TD. |
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Peer Reviewed |
Materia(s):
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-Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Enginyeria del software -Computer software -- Quality control -Code quality -Technical debt -Human factors -Data mining -Programari -- Control de qualitat |
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Artículo - Versión presentada Objeto de conferencia |
Editor:
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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