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Code Red: The Business Impact of Code Quality - A Quantitative Study of 39 Proprietary Production Codebases 红色代码:代码质量的商业影响——对39个专有生产代码库的定量研究

2022 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Technical Debt (TechDebt) Pub Date : 2022-03-08 DOI: 10.1145/3524843.3528091

Adam Tornhill, Markus Borg

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