The Characteristics and Impact of Uncompilable Code Changes on Software Quality Evolution

2020 IEEE 20th International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security (QRS) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI:10.1109/QRS51102.2020.00061

Jincheng He, Sitao Min, Kelechi Ogudu, Michael Shoga, A. Polak, Iordanis Fostiropoulos, B. Boehm, Pooyan Behnamghader

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Software repositories allow multiple developers to iteratively contribute commits, with the intention of improving the system. However, commits can negatively impact software quality, or even cause the software to become uncompilable. Recent studies show that uncompilable commits exist even in high-profile open-source software. Identifying broken code, a potential symptom of careless development, and analyzing how software changes when it becomes uncompilable can shed light on how software quality evolves when developers do not follow best practices. Since comprehensive software quality analysis tools are incapable of analyzing uncompilable commits, there is little insight as to what happens and how quality changes when a commit breaks the compilability. In this paper, starting from an analysis of the software quality metric changes that happen when the project become uncompilable, we explore the purposes of commits and the relations between commit type, size and compilability, analyzed across 68 open-source Java repositories.

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不可编译代码变更的特点及其对软件质量演化的影响

软件存储库允许多个开发人员迭代地提交，以改进系统。然而，提交会对软件质量产生负面影响，甚至导致软件变得不可编译。最近的研究表明，即使在高调的开源软件中也存在不可编译的提交。识别损坏的代码(粗心开发的潜在症状)，并分析当软件变得不可编译时它是如何变化的，可以揭示当开发人员不遵循最佳实践时软件质量是如何演变的。由于全面的软件质量分析工具无法分析不可编译的提交，因此当提交破坏了可编译性时，对于发生了什么以及质量如何变化的了解很少。在本文中，我们从分析当项目变得不可编译时发生的软件质量度量变化开始，探讨了提交的目的以及提交类型、大小和可编译性之间的关系，对68个开源Java存储库进行了分析。

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