2016

Watch out for This Commit! A Study of Influential Software Changes

Li, Daoyuan, Li, Li, Kim, Dongsun et al.

Understand

One single code change can significantly influence a wide range of software systems and their users.

For example, 1) adding a new feature can spread defects in several modules, while 2) changing an API method can improve the performance of all client programs.
Developers often may not clearly know whether their or others' changes are influential at commit time.
Rather, it turns out to be influential after affecting many aspects of a system later.

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