Does the migration to GitHub relate to internal software quality?

R. Roveda, F.A. Fontana, C. Raibulet, M. Zanoni, F. Rampazzo

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Abstract

© 2017 by SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, Lda. All Rights Reserved.Software development is more and more influenced by the usage of FLOSS (Free, Libre and Open Source Software) projects. These software projects are developed in web collaborative environments hosted on web platforms, called code forges. Many code forges exist, with different capabilities. GitHub is perhaps the largest code forge available, and many projects have been migrated from different code forges to GitHub. Given its success, we want to understand if its adoption has effect on the projects' internal quality. To consider objective measures of internal quality, we apply four known tools performing static analysis to extract metrics and code anomalies. These data is extracted on six versions of six FLOSS projects, and compared to understand if the migration to GitHub had any consistent effect over any of the considered measures.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationENASE 2017 - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering
EditorsE. Damiani, G. Spanoudakis, L. Maciaszek
PublisherSciTePress
Pages293-300
ISBN (Electronic)9789897582509
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event12th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, ENASE 2017 - Porto, Portugal
Duration: 28 Apr 201729 Apr 2017

Conference

Conference12th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, ENASE 2017
Country/TerritoryPortugal
CityPorto
Period28/04/1729/04/17

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