Effects of the number of developers on code quality in open source software: a case study

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Eleven open source software projects written in C/C++ were analyzed to determine if the number of committing developers impacts code quality. We use cyclomatic complexity, lines of code per function, comment density, and maximum nesting as surrogate measures of code quality. We find no significant evidence to suggest that the number of committing developers affects the quality of software. Categories and Subject Descriptors D.2.8 [Software Engineering]: Metrics

Brandon Norick, Justin Krohn, Eben Howard, Ben Wel

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Added	09 Nov 2010
Updated	09 Nov 2010
Type	Conference
Year	2010
Where	ESEM
Authors	Brandon Norick, Justin Krohn, Eben Howard, Ben Welna, Clemente Izurieta

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