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Title

The Qualitas Corpus: a curated collection of Java code for empirical studies

Author(s)

Tempero, Ewan;  Anslow, Craig;  Dietrich, Jens;  Han, Ted;  Li, Jing;  Lumpe, Markus;  Melton, Hayden;  Noble, James

Abstract

In order to increase our ability to use measurement to support software development practise we need to do more analysis of code. However, empirical studies of code are expensive and their results are difficult to compare. We describe the Qualitas Corpus, a large curated collection of open source Java systems. The corpus reduces the cost of performing large empirical studies of code and supports comparison of measurements of the same artifacts. We discuss its design, organisation, and issues associated with its development.

Publication type

Conference paper

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies

Source

Proceedings of 'Software for Improving Quality of Life', the 17th Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 2010), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 30 November - 03 December 2010 / Jun Han and Tran Dan Thu (eds.), pp. 336-345

Publication year

2010

FOR Code(s)

0803 Computer Software

Keyword(s)

Curated code corpus;  Empirical studies;  Experimental infrastructure;  Java code;  Qualitas Corpus

Publisher

IEEE

ISSN

1530-1362 (series ISSN)

ISBN

9780769542669, 0769542662

Publisher URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/APSEC.2010.46

Copyright

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