FSE/CACM Rebuttal²: Correcting A Large-Scale Study of Programming Languages and Code Quality in GitHub

2019/11/26 by Emery D. Berger, Berger, Emery D., Petr Maj +5
Computer Science · #Distributed systems and fault tolerance #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques #Programming Languages (cs.PL) #Software Engineering (cs.SE) #Software Engineering Research #Software Reliability and Analysis Research #Software System Performance and Reliability

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1911.11894

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Abstract

Ray, Devanbu and Filkov issued a rebuttal of our TOPLAS paper "On the Impact of Programming Languages on Code Quality: A Reproduction Study". Our paper reproduced "A Large-Scale Study of Programming Languages and Code Quality in GitHub", which appeared at FSE 2014 and was subsequently republished as a CACM research highlight in 2017. This article is a rebuttal to that rebuttal.

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