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Does the duration of rapid release cycles affect the bug handling activity?

Jansen, Thorn; Abou Khalil, Zeinab; Constantinou, Eleni et al.

2021

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[en] Software projects are regularly updated with new functionality and bug fixes through so-called releases. In recent years, many software projects have been shifting to shorter release cycles and this can affect the bug handling activity. Past research has focused on the impact of switching from traditional to rapid release cycles with respect to bug handling activity, but the effect of the rapid release cycle duration has not yet been studied. We empirically investigate releases of 420 open source projects with rapid release cycles to understand the effect of variable and rapid release cycle durations on bug handling activity. We group the releases of these projects into five categories of release cycle durations. For each project, we investigate how the sequence of releases is related to bug handling activity metrics and we study the effect of the variability of cycle durations on bug fixing. Our results did not reveal any statistically significant difference for the studied bug handling activity metrics in the presence of variable rapid release cycle durations. This suggests that the duration of fast release cycles does not seem to impact bug handling activity.

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Computer science
Electrical & electronics engineering

Author, co-author :

Jansen, Thorn

Abou Khalil, Zeinab ; Université de Mons > Faculté des Sciences > Service de Génie Logiciel

Constantinou, Eleni

Mens, Tom ; Université de Mons > Faculté des Sciences > Service de Génie Logiciel

Language :

English

Title :

Does the duration of rapid release cycles affect the bug handling activity?

Publication date :

15 March 2021

Event name :

4th International ICSE Workshop on Software Health

Event place :

Madrid, Spain

Event date :

2021

Research unit :

S852 - Génie Logiciel

Research institute :

R300 - Institut de Recherche en Technologies de l'Information et Sciences de l'Informatique

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