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Cohesion Between Size of Commit and Type of Commit

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Computer Science and Convergence

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering ((LNEE,volume 114))

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Predicting what type of work was performed by developers in OSS has attracted several researchers. Previous studies have shown that fixing bugs are usually done by modifying very few files. In this study, we try to predict the trends and characteristics of how developers commit source code to version control systems (SVN, CVS, etc.). We want to investigate if number of files that are committed together is an indication of type of activity. In other words, is number of files in a commit related to the type of activity? Interestingly, we found that a strong correlation exits between type of activity and number of files involved in a commit. To make sure our study is not biased for a specific project, we have analyzed ten projects. Parsing messages in commits and processing the results, we found in coherent with previous studies bug fixing involves few files in a commit and commits that affect several files are usually related to adding functionality.

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  1. CSE and IT Department, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

    Maryam Marzban, Zahra Khoshmanesh & Ashkan Sami

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  1. SeoulTech, Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul University of Science & Technology, Gongreung 2-dong 172, Seoul, 139-742, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park

  2. Inst. Computer Science & Information, Engineering, National Ilan University, 1 Sec. 1, Shen-Lung Rd., I-Lan, 260, Taiwan R.O.C.

    Han-Chieh Chao

  3. , Computer Science & Software Engineering, Monmouth University, W. Long Branch, 07764, USA

    Mohammad S. Obaidat

  4. , Division of e-Business, Kyungnam University, Changwon, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    Jongsung Kim

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Marzban, M., Khoshmanesh, Z., Sami, A. (2012). Cohesion Between Size of Commit and Type of Commit. In: J. (Jong Hyuk) Park, J., Chao, HC., S. Obaidat, M., Kim, J. (eds) Computer Science and Convergence. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 114. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2792-2_22

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