Patch quality may affect software maintenance cost. However, there is a lack of understanding why patches are accepted/rejected. To provide empirical evidence of patch acceptance, we (1) present patch review criteria based on our literature survey and manual patch inspection, (2) show the result of a large scale online survey to understand the opinion of both patch reviewers and submitters, (3) propose patch acceptance prediction features based on the patch review criteria which show reasonable performance.
| Date of Award | 2013 |
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| Original language | English |
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| Awarding Institution | - The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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Writing acceptable patches : an empirical study of open source project patches
Han, D. (Author). 2013
Student thesis: Master's thesis