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Developer belief vs. reality: the case of the commit size distribution

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2012

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Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.

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The design of software development tools follows from what the developers of such tools believe is true about software development. A key aspect of such beliefs is the size of code contributions (commits) to a software project. In this paper, we show that what tool developers think is true about the size of code contributions is different by more than an order of magnitude from reality. We present this reality, called the commit size distribution, for a large sample of open source and selected closed source projects. We suggest that these new empirical insights will help improve software development tools by aligning underlying design assumptions closer with reality.

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Riehle, Dirk; Kolassa, Carsten; Salim, Michel A. (2012): Developer belief vs. reality: the case of the commit size distribution. Software Engineering 2012. Bonn: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.. PISSN: 1617-5468. ISBN: 978-3-88579-292-5. pp. 59-70. Regular Research Papers. Berlin. 27. Februar - 2. März 2012

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