A Large-Scale Study of Programming Languages and Code Quality in GitHub.

What is the effect of programming languages on software quality? This question has been a topic of much debate for a very long time. In this study, we gather a very large data set from GitHub (728 projects, 63 million SLOC, 29,000 authors, 1.5 million commits, in 17 languages) in an attempt to shed...

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Publicado en:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 60; no. 10; pp. 91 - 101
Autores principales:	Ray, Baishakhi, Posnett, Daryl Posnett, Devanbu, Premkumar, Filkov, Vladimir
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Association for Computing Machinery Oct2017
Materias:	Programming languages Computer programming Computer software quality control Computer defects
Acceso en línea:	Ver este registro en EBSCOhost