Abstract
A fundamental unit of work in programming is the code contribution ("commit") that a developer makes to the code base of the project in work. We use statistical methods to derive a model of the probabilistic distribution of commit sizes in open source projects and we show that the model is applicable to different project sizes. We use both graphical as well as statistical methods to validate the goodness of fit of our model. By measuring and modeling a fundamental dimension of programming we help improve software development tools and our understanding of software development. © 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
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Kolassa, C., Riehle, D., & Salim, M. A. (2013). A model of the commit size distribution of open source. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 7741 LNCS, pp. 52–66). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35843-2_6
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