Code Red: The Business Impact of Code Quality -- A Quantitative Study of 39 Proprietary Production Codebases — mentioned by gspencley

Mon, 16 Dec 2024 21:29:56 GMT

> Code quality does not affect final product quality IMHO. What we need, admittedly, is more research and study around this. I know of one study which supports my position, but I'm happy to admit that the data is sparse. https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.04374 From the abstract: "By analyzing activity in 30,737 files, we find that low quality code contains 15 times more defects than high quality code."

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Code Red: The Business Impact of Code Quality -- A Quantitative Study of 39 Proprietary Production Codebases — mentioned by nephrenka

Thu, 17 Mar 2022 14:07:54 GMT

This is indeed something that the academic research paper (see https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.04374) identifies as Future Work. There could be a code familiarity component that explains the large risks and variations. From the paper: "Could it be that changes done by the main author are faster and more predictable than corresponding changes made by a minor contributor? We suspect that author experience could be a factor that impacts the predictability of changes to low quality code." If that turns out to be the case, then it would highlight organizational dimensions of low quality code: key…

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Code Red: The Business Impact of Code Quality -- A Quantitative Study of 39 Proprietary Production Codebases — mentioned by gspencley

Code Red: The Business Impact of Code Quality -- A Quantitative Study of 39 Proprietary Production Codebases — mentioned by nephrenka