Does the Migration to GitHub Relate to Internal Software Quality?

Riccardo Roveda, Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Claudia Raibulet, Marco Zanoni, Federico Rampazzo

2017

Abstract

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.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Roveda R., Arcelli Fontana F., Raibulet C., Zanoni M. and Rampazzo F. (2017). Does the Migration to GitHub Relate to Internal Software Quality? . In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE, ISBN 978-989-758-250-9, pages 293-300. DOI: 10.5220/0006367402930300

in Bibtex Style

@conference{enase17,
author={Riccardo Roveda and Francesca Arcelli Fontana and Claudia Raibulet and Marco Zanoni and Federico Rampazzo},
title={Does the Migration to GitHub Relate to Internal Software Quality?},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,},
year={2017},
pages={293-300},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006367402930300},
isbn={978-989-758-250-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,
TI - Does the Migration to GitHub Relate to Internal Software Quality?
SN - 978-989-758-250-9
AU - Roveda R.
AU - Arcelli Fontana F.
AU - Raibulet C.
AU - Zanoni M.
AU - Rampazzo F.
PY - 2017
SP - 293
EP - 300
DO - 10.5220/0006367402930300